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4 ROM time to time members of the Society<br />
desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done<br />
for them. The Committee, acting on the<br />
suggestion of one of these members, have<br />
decided to place this permanent paragraph in<br />
The Author in order that members may be<br />
cognisant of those funds to which these con-<br />
tributions may be paid.<br />
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The funds suitable for this purpose are:<br />
(1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in<br />
reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to<br />
incur heavy expenditure, either in fighting a<br />
question of principle, or in assisting to obtain<br />
copyright reform, or in dealing with any other<br />
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length, given way on both points, and the<br />
accounts had been duly vouched in accordance<br />
with the Society’s desire. The report of the<br />
Society’s accountant had been received.<br />
<br />
A question of infringement of copyright,<br />
which the Society had previously been unable<br />
to take up, was again brought before the com-<br />
mittee, as fresh evidence was now at the dis-<br />
posal of the complainant. The solicitor was<br />
instructed to inquire into the new evidence and<br />
to report to the next meeting. The solicitor<br />
reported on another case in the High Court,<br />
which will, most probably, be settled before<br />
this record appears, and that in another action<br />
the debt and costs had been paid.<br />
<br />
The next dispute referred to the proper<br />
rendering of accounts. Owing to the errors<br />
that had occurred, the committee decided to<br />
place in an accountant, when all the items<br />
would be properly vouched. The solicitors<br />
then reported on a claim by one of the members<br />
against a publishing firm, and stated that they<br />
had issued a writ, but that it was possible the<br />
firm would be unable to pay, in which case it<br />
might be necessary to take some further steps.<br />
A question of infringement of dramatic copy-<br />
right the solicitors hoped to be able to settle,<br />
as they had been in communication with<br />
the defendants’ solicitors with this in view.<br />
Another claim for infringement of dramatic<br />
copyright was before the committee, and the<br />
solicitors were able to report that they were in<br />
negotiation with the defendant and hoped to<br />
be able to settle the matter satisfactorily. A<br />
claim for a member for money for work done<br />
under a contract was next considered, and the<br />
committee decided to go forward with it.<br />
A dispute on the interpretation of a contract,<br />
on which the solicitors had been advising, was<br />
fully gone into, and the solicitors explained<br />
what they considered to be the legal aspect of<br />
the case. It was decided by the committee<br />
that the solicitors should write and report to<br />
the member concerned, with a view to deciding<br />
as to the course it might be necessary to take.<br />
<br />
The secretary then detailed a complaint<br />
raised by one of the members in regard to the<br />
publication of advertisements by publishers in<br />
the 6d. editions of authors’ novels. The com-<br />
mittee gave a careful consideration to the issue,<br />
and instructed the secretary to write to the<br />
member.<br />
<br />
The committee decided to take up a case of<br />
infringement of the dramatic rights of one of<br />
the members if it was not possible to come to<br />
an amicable arrangement.<br />
<br />
In two complaints by members of the Society<br />
against certain agents for malconduct, one of the<br />
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members agreed to make further inquiries and<br />
report to the next meeting. The committee<br />
considered the issues were of serious import-<br />
ance. It was decided to take two cases up in<br />
France, one being for infringement of copy-<br />
right and the other a claim for accounts<br />
undelivered. A case of gross infringement in<br />
America was considered, and the secretary was<br />
instructed to write to ascertain what action<br />
could be taken. Finally, the secretary laid<br />
before the committee an article dealing with a<br />
publisher’s agreement, and received instruc-<br />
tions to print the article in The Author.<br />
<br />
The question of cinematography was fully<br />
discussed, and it was suggested it might be<br />
desirable to appoint a sub-committee. On the<br />
report of the secretary, however, it was<br />
decided to leave the matter in the hands of the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee.<br />
<br />
Mr. Theodore Holland was elected a member<br />
of the Composers’ Sub-Committee, at the<br />
suggestion of that committee.<br />
<br />
The secretary reported the action he had<br />
taken in regard to international copyright, at<br />
an interview with certain important members<br />
of the Publishers’ Association, with a view to<br />
joint action being taken, if necessary. He<br />
reported also, in the same connection, that<br />
considerable difficulty had arisen in Holland<br />
owing to the fact that the Dutch had only<br />
recently joined the International Copyright<br />
Convention. It was decided to obtain a legal<br />
opinion from a Dutch lawyer on certain<br />
important points affecting dramatic produc-<br />
tions in that country.<br />
<br />
It was decided to rent a room for the regis-<br />
tration of scenarios, at a cost of £2 2s. per<br />
annum, as the secretary explained that the<br />
register was increasing beyond the limits of<br />
the room at the Society’s disposal.<br />
<br />
The committee decided to print in The<br />
Author from time to time the names and<br />
addresses of the dramatic agents appointed by<br />
the Society, for the guidance of members who<br />
might desire agents to act on their behalf,<br />
<br />
The secretary reported that, since February,<br />
the following had joined the Society as life<br />
members :—Gerald S. Dunn, Miles Franklin,<br />
E. Thompson Seton, Paul Hasluck, The Rev.<br />
W. Temple, Harold Cross.<br />
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AUTHORS AND EDITORS.<br />
<br />
{cae adjourned meeting of the Committee<br />
of Management and Editors was held<br />
<br />
at Central Buildings, Tothill Street, on<br />
Thursday, June 19. The following resolution,<br />
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which had been embodied and sent round in a<br />
circular, was accepted by the editors whose<br />
names are printed below.<br />
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Resolution.<br />
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‘<The authors and artists whose articles,<br />
stories, or drawings may have been accepted,<br />
shall be paid for those accepted articles,<br />
stories, or drawings, at the next official pay-<br />
day after the publication, or within six<br />
months from the date of acceptance of such<br />
articles, stories, or drawings, whichever is<br />
the shorter period.”<br />
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In favour.<br />
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J. T. Herbert Bailey, The Connoisseur.<br />
Vivian Carter, The Byestander.<br />
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F. Chalmers Dixon, English Review.<br />
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L. J. Maxse, National Review.<br />
*G. W. Prothero, Quarterly Review.<br />
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Harold Cox, Edinburgh Review.<br />
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C. E. S. Chambers, Chambers’ Journal.<br />
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F. H. Fisher, Literary W orld.<br />
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Chas. Hyatt-Woolfe, Science Siftings.<br />
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G. Binney Dibblee, The Field ; The Queen.<br />
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* There was a reservation by the Editor of The Quarterly<br />
Review that the word “ shall” should be altered to “ should.”<br />
<br />
After this resolution had been put forward,<br />
it was proposed—owing to the fact that many<br />
editors, while approving the spirit of the<br />
resolution, objected to the letter, and that no<br />
voice was raised in opposition to the principle<br />
of obtaining a more uniform and businesslike<br />
practice—to discuss, either by circular or by<br />
means of an adjourned meeting later in the<br />
year, the following :—<br />
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“We consider that it should be under-<br />
stood by all authors and artists whose con-<br />
tributions have been accepted, that they<br />
shall be entitled to make requisition for pay-<br />
ment at any period six months after such<br />
acceptance, and that such requisition shall<br />
not be considered in any way contrary to<br />
established precedent.”<br />
<br />
It is hoped by the Committee that it will be<br />
possible to get a still larger number of editors<br />
to consent to this more elastic resolution,<br />
which will give great relief to contributors.<br />
Many editors are quite willing to pay within a<br />
reasonable time if they are asked, but they<br />
fail to understand the author’s point of view.<br />
It is not so much natural modesty, as a fear—<br />
in many cases, we regret to say, well-founded—<br />
that any step they may take to disturb the<br />
equanimity of the editor will result in their<br />
future contributions being set aside.<br />
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Another point was put forward, which the<br />
committee hope to deal with in the autumn,<br />
namely, the possibility of arranging between<br />
authors and editors some form of conditional<br />
acceptance in those cases where editors feel<br />
they could not give an immediate and uncon-<br />
ditional decision. ;<br />
<br />
The committee beg to tender their very<br />
grateful thanks to those editors who have so<br />
courteously responded, not only for the interest<br />
they have shown in the issues, but also for the<br />
willingness expressed by them to arrive at a<br />
uniform and businesslike arrangement with<br />
the contributors to magazines.<br />
<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
<br />
THE June meeting of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
Committee was held at the offices of the<br />
Society of Authors on Friday, the 20th of that<br />
month, at 3 o’clock.<br />
<br />
Following the signing of the minutes of the<br />
previous meeting, a discussion took place as to<br />
the collection of fees on amateur performances.<br />
Mr. Cyril Hogg, of Messrs. Samuel French, Ltd.,<br />
was kind enough to attend and confer with the<br />
sub-committee on the subject.<br />
<br />
The next matter—one of considerable im-<br />
portance—was a dispute between certain<br />
members of the Society and their agents. The<br />
full details of the case were placed before the<br />
sub-committee and discussed, and a recom-<br />
mendation was passed to the Committee of<br />
Management that the facts of the case should<br />
be put forward in The Author for the protection<br />
of other members.<br />
<br />
The delegates appointed to meet the West<br />
End managers reported what had occurred at<br />
the meeting, and the secretary laid before the<br />
sub-committee the draft of the Managerial<br />
Treaty, with the notes he had made when the<br />
clauses were being discussed. It was decided<br />
to reconsider the matter at the next meeting of<br />
the sub-committee, which was fixed for Friday,<br />
July 11.<br />
<br />
The secretary reported that the model agree-<br />
ment, which the sub-committee had instructed<br />
him to draft, was not, as yet, in its completed<br />
form, and it was decided that this matter<br />
should also be adjourned to the next meeting.<br />
<br />
On the question of foreign agents one or two<br />
letters were laid before the sub-committee, and<br />
the secretary received instructions to write for<br />
further information as to the issues and the<br />
terms.<br />
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Composers’ Sus-CoMMITTEE.<br />
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THE Composers’ Sub-Committee met on<br />
Saturday, June 14, at 11 o’clock, at the offices<br />
of the Society, 1 Central Buildings, Tothill<br />
Street, Westminster, S.W.<br />
<br />
After the minutes of the previous meeting<br />
had been read, the answers to the circular<br />
sent round to composers were considered.<br />
These answers were classified and catalogued,<br />
and the Committee were very pleased to note<br />
that the answers received were almost unani-<br />
mous. It was proposed to make a full state-<br />
ment in the October issue of The Author,<br />
and also to call a conference of composers<br />
some time in the Autumn to determine what<br />
course should be taken to draw members of<br />
the profession closer together. It was agreed<br />
that a regular circular should be sent out<br />
to as large a number of composers as possible<br />
with a full list of agenda.<br />
<br />
A discussion then arose concerning the<br />
appointment of an agent in Germany for the<br />
collection of mechanical instrument fees in<br />
that country, and it was decided to accept the<br />
terms of the Anstalt fur Mechanisch Musi-<br />
kalische Rechte, known in Germany under the<br />
short title of ‘‘ the Ammre.”’<br />
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Cases,<br />
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THE number of cases from month to month<br />
has varied but little recently. During the<br />
month of June seventeen cases have come into<br />
the hands of the secretary. Of these four refer<br />
to disputes on agreements. It is pleasing to<br />
think that they can very often be settled by the<br />
informal arbitration of the Society. Out of the<br />
four three have already been settled, but one<br />
has only recently come to the office.<br />
<br />
Four cases of infringement of copyright have<br />
occurred, and two of these have been settled,<br />
while two are still in course of negotiation, one<br />
lying in the U.S.A.<br />
<br />
Three claims for money have come before<br />
the secretary; of these, one is eoncluded, one<br />
has had to be placed in the hands of the<br />
Society’s solicitors, and most probably the third<br />
will also have to go into the lawyers’ hands, as<br />
the party has refused to answer any of the<br />
Society’s letters.<br />
<br />
In three claims for money and accounts, one<br />
has been settled, but the other two are in an<br />
unsatisfactory position as no answer has been<br />
forthcoming ; these will also, most probably,<br />
have to be placed into the solicitors’ hands.<br />
Two claims for the return of MSS. are still<br />
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open. The last case was one for the delivery<br />
of accounts. The accounts have been delivered<br />
and the matter settled.<br />
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It will be seen, therefore, that out of the<br />
seventeen cases eight have already been<br />
settled.<br />
<br />
This is very satisfactory. The remainder<br />
will no doubt be settled during the coming<br />
month.<br />
<br />
Of the cases open from the preceding months,<br />
there are three, two for money and accounts,<br />
and one referring to a negotiation for transla-<br />
tion rights. They are all in foreign countries,<br />
two lying in France and one in the U.S.A.<br />
Most probably one of the cases in France will<br />
have to be handed over to our lawyers in<br />
Paris, as no answer has been received to the<br />
letters of demand. The matter is at present<br />
waiting for an answer from the author.<br />
<br />
It may be chronicled incidentally here,<br />
though the solicitors’ cases are not generally<br />
included under this head, that during the last<br />
month the Society has been successful in the<br />
case of Corelli and Gray and Pett Ridge and<br />
the English Illustrated.<br />
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Marshall, Miss Cicily<br />
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Maxwell, Richard<br />
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Drummond, M.D.<br />
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Monsell, G. R.<br />
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Moore, Paymaster John<br />
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Scott, Mrs. Dawson<br />
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Stockley, Mrs. Cynthia<br />
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port.<br />
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clo Messrs. Brown,<br />
Shipley & Co., 122,<br />
Pall Mall, S.W.<br />
<br />
Prestwick, Witley,<br />
Surrey.<br />
<br />
** Shillay,”’ Exeter.<br />
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Rochdale.<br />
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W.<br />
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W.C.<br />
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6, Mortlake Road,<br />
Kew.<br />
<br />
Bank Chambers, 111,<br />
New OxfordStreet,<br />
W.C.<br />
<br />
Webster, Mrs. Arthur .<br />
<br />
Wheatley, E. Pearse<br />
Wild, Alfred G.<br />
<br />
Wilde, A. D.<br />
Williams, Robert Inn,<br />
<br />
Wills, J. T.<br />
<br />
Wimperis, Arthur<br />
<br />
it<br />
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BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list, and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate.<br />
<br />
ARCHAIOLOGY.<br />
<br />
Tue Hawara Portrotto. Paintings of the Roman Age.<br />
Found by W. M. Frrypers Petrie (British School of<br />
Archeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account,<br />
Nineteenth Year, 1913). 124 x 10.<br />
<br />
ARCHITECTURE.<br />
<br />
Its Psychology, Structure and<br />
History from the First Muhamadan Invasion to the<br />
Present Day. By E. B. Haverty. 260 pp. Murray.<br />
30s. n.<br />
<br />
ART.<br />
<br />
VisvAKARMA. Examples of Indian Architecture, Sculp-<br />
ture, Painting, Handicraft. Chosen by A. W. Cooma-<br />
RASwAMy, D.Sc. Part IV. 11 x 8}. Luzac. 2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Srort rn Art. An Iconography of Sport during Four<br />
Hundred Years from the Beginning of the Fifteenth to<br />
the End of the Eighteenth Centuries. By W. A.<br />
Bane Gronman. 13 x 10. 422 pp. Ballantyne.<br />
£2 2s. n.<br />
<br />
THE RENAISSANCE AND Its MAKeERs.<br />
and §S. L. Brnsusan. 94 x 63.<br />
10s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
By J. W. Symon<br />
456 pp. Jack.<br />
<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
<br />
Tan Lirr or Joun Bricut. By Grorce MAcauLay<br />
TREVELYAN. 9 x 53. 480 pp. Constable. 15s. n.<br />
Oscar Wipe. A Critical Study. By A. Ransome.<br />
(C heap Edition.) 7 x 4}. 234 pp. Methuen, Is. n,<br />
<br />
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<br />
286<br />
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<br />
Tue Earty Lire or Motrxe. A Lecture delivered before<br />
the University of Oxford, May 10th, 1913. By Sprnour<br />
Witxinson, Chichele Professor of Military History.<br />
9 x 6. 28 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. London :<br />
Frowde & Milford. Is. n.<br />
<br />
“Potty Pzacnum.” Being the Story of Lavinia Fenton<br />
(Duchess of Bolton) and “The Beggar's Opera.” By<br />
C. E. Prarce. 9 x 5}. 382 pp. Stanley Paul. 16s. n.<br />
<br />
“J”: A Memoir or Jonn Wits CLARK. By A. E.<br />
Suiptey. 9 x 5}. 362 pp. Smith Elder. 10s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Mapame Royatz, Daveurer or Louis XVI., anp Marre<br />
<br />
AntorneTTs. HzR YourH AND Marriage. From the<br />
French of Ernest Daudet. By Mrs. Ropotpu STawELL.<br />
9 x 6. 264 pp. Heinemann. 10s. n.<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
French Purases. By Gorpon Davyson. 54 x 32°<br />
134 pp. Nutt. Is.n.<br />
CLASSICAL.<br />
<br />
Tue Ruxsus or Evrreepss. Translated into English<br />
Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes. By GiLBErt<br />
<br />
Murray, LL.D., D.Litt. 7h x 5. 67 pp. Allen.<br />
28. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Cyprus (According to Dinon 460 B.C.). A Fabulous<br />
<br />
Tragedy in Prologue and Four Acts. By J. Marriorr<br />
Hopexiys. 73x 5. 90 pp. John Long. Qs. 6d. n,<br />
<br />
EDUCATIONAL.<br />
<br />
THE StupDENT’s ELEMENTARY CoMMERCIAL BOOK-KEEPING.<br />
Seventeenth Edition. By Arrnur FIELDHOUSE.<br />
74 x 43. 358 pp. Simpkin. 2s.<br />
<br />
THe STUDENT'S ComMPLETE ComMERCIAL BOOK-KEEPING.<br />
AccounTING AND Banxina. Eighteenth Edition. By<br />
ARTHUR FIELDHOUSE. 7} x 43. 902 pp. Simpkin.<br />
4s.<br />
<br />
Tue StrupEent’s Business MretTnops or ComMMERCTAL<br />
PRACTICE AND CORRESPONDENCE. Sixth Edition. By<br />
ArtHuR FrevpHousE. 7} x 43. 372 pp. Simpkin<br />
2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Key To Tur StupEnt’s ApvANcED (Part II.) CommERcraL<br />
Boox-Kerrinc, Accounting AND Banxkine. Third<br />
<br />
Edition. By Artuur Fre.pHousr and Epwin WIson.<br />
82 x 53. 487 pp. Simpkin. 16s.<br />
FICTION.<br />
Barry anp A Stnner. By Joun Barnett. 73 x 5}.<br />
307 pp. Smith Elder. 6s.<br />
THe Litrte Maister. By R. H. Forster. 7} x 5.<br />
<br />
320 pp. John Long 6s,<br />
<br />
Tue Witt Hanp anv THE Brack. By Bertram Mrr-<br />
ForD. (Cheap Reprint.) 64 x 4}. John Long. 7d. n.<br />
<br />
A GarpEN or Srices. By A. Kerra Fraser. Hodder<br />
& Stoughton.<br />
<br />
Tue WILDERNESS Lovers. By E. R. Punsuon. 72 x 5.<br />
308 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 6s.<br />
<br />
Tue Story or Mary Dunne. By M. E. Francis (Mrs.<br />
Francis Blundell). 7} x 5. 312 pp. Murray. 6s.<br />
Waite tHe Music Lasts. By JutiaA Macponaxp.<br />
<br />
7% x 5. 320 pp. Holden & Hardingham. 6s.<br />
THE ParRapise or Foots, By Derek VANE. 74 X 5.<br />
320 pp. Everett. 6s.<br />
Ducks anp Drakzs.<br />
7% x 5. 320 pp.<br />
<br />
By Marie Connor Leicuton.<br />
Ward Lock. 6s.<br />
<br />
THe Human Boy. By Eprmn Puuuports. 64 x 4}.<br />
183 pp. Methuen. 7d. n.<br />
<br />
A Durr with Cuorus. By A. Conan Doytz. 256 pp.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 7d. n.<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
Tae Norruern Iron.<br />
Everett. 7d. n.<br />
Tae Unworrtny Pacr. By Dorornna Grrarp (Madame<br />
<br />
Longard de Longgarde). 73 x 5. 312 pp. Stanley<br />
Paul. 6s.<br />
<br />
THE TRANSFORMATION oF TimorHy.<br />
367 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
THe Forpineron Twos. By E. Newton Bunaey.<br />
<br />
By G. A. Brrmincuam. 255 pp-<br />
<br />
By T. Cops. 72 x 5.<br />
<br />
7% X 43. 320 pp. Lynwood. 6s.<br />
A Goppgss or Stonz. By R. W. Wricut Henperson.<br />
7% x 5. 312 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
<br />
Tue Fire Wrrniy. By Parrrcra WENTWORTH.<br />
275 pp. Melrose. 6s.<br />
AvERNo. By B. Mrrrorp.<br />
<br />
Lock. 6s.<br />
<br />
WINE OF THE LzEES. By J. A. Srevarr.<br />
347 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 1s. n.<br />
<br />
Tar Emprror’s CanpLestioks, By Baroness Orczy.<br />
288 pp.; Brau Brocape. 307 pp. By Baroness<br />
Orczy; Opp Crarr. By W. W. Jacozs. 248 pp.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 1s.<br />
<br />
THE GaRDEN or REsuRRECTION.<br />
<br />
12 Xx 8.<br />
7% x 5. 311 pp. Ward<br />
7k x 44.<br />
<br />
By E. Temrie Tuours-<br />
<br />
TON. 74 x 5. 367 pp. (New and Cheaper Edition.)<br />
Chapman & Hall. 2s. n.<br />
<br />
DorornEa. A Story of the Pure in Heart. By Maarten<br />
MaarTens. 573 pp. Constable. 3s. 6d.<br />
<br />
THE Goop Comrapn. By Una L. Smperrap. 367 pp-<br />
Constable. 3s. 6d.<br />
<br />
THe Outcast oF THE Famity.<br />
63 x 44. 353 pp.;<br />
CHARLES GARVIOR.<br />
Stoughton. 7d.<br />
<br />
Lema aAnp Her Lover. By Max Prmperton.<br />
310 pp. Ward Lock. 6s.<br />
<br />
THE WINNING OF GWENORA. By Eprra C. Kenyon.<br />
73 X 5. 320 pp. Holden & Hardingham. 6s.<br />
<br />
Darropi’s Love Arrairs. By Lovisr M. STacrooLe<br />
<br />
By Cuaries GaARvVICE.<br />
Her Hearts Desire. By<br />
63 x 44. 384 pp. Hodder &<br />
<br />
12 x 0.<br />
<br />
Kenny. 74 x 5. 320 pp. Holden & Hardingham.<br />
6s.<br />
<br />
BupsLe anp SquEaK. By Watrer Emanvgn. 7} x 5.<br />
224 pp. Hutchinson. Is. n.<br />
<br />
Tue Nicut Nursz. Fourth Revised Edition. By the<br />
Author of “THe Sureron’s Log.” 74x 5. 311 pp.<br />
<br />
Chapman & Hall. 6s.<br />
<br />
HISTORY.<br />
<br />
Mexico, THE LAND or Unrest. Being chiefly an account<br />
of what produced the Outbreak in 1910. Together with<br />
the Story of the Revolution down to this day. By H.<br />
BaERLEIN. 9 X 6. 461 pp. Herbert & Daniel. 16s. n.<br />
<br />
SELEcT STATUTES AND OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL DocUMENTS<br />
It.ustRative oF THE Reiens or ELizaBETH AND<br />
James I. Edited by G. W. Prornero, Litt.D.<br />
72 x 5}. 490 pp. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Claren-<br />
don Press; London: Frowde & Milford. 10s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
LITERARY.<br />
<br />
Mysticism in EncuisH Lirrrature. By Carorre F, E.<br />
Spurcron. 6} x 43. 168 pp. (Cambridge Manuals<br />
of Science and Literature.) Cambridge University<br />
Press. Ils. n.<br />
<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
<br />
Tur LecrurE YEAR Book. Vol. I., 1913—14. Edited<br />
by Bast Stewart. 11} x 83. 56 pp. Heath, Cran-<br />
ton and Ouseley. 3s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
NatuRrE’s MysTEeRIES ; or How TaHErosopHy ILLUMINATES<br />
Tuem. By A. P. Srynerr. 7 x 43. 60 pp. The<br />
<br />
Theosophical Publishing Society. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
MUSIC.<br />
<br />
CuamBer Music. A Treatise for Students. By T. F.<br />
Dunumu. 83 x 53. 311 pp. Macmillan and Stainer<br />
& Bell. 10s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
Tae Boptey Heap Natura History. By E. D. Cumine.<br />
Illustrated by F. A. SepHerp. Vol. I., British Birds,<br />
Passeres. 6} x 5}. 120 pp. Lane. 2s. n.<br />
<br />
POETRY.<br />
THe Woorne or A Goppzss. A Tale Re-told, with some<br />
Poetic and Mythological Licence. By B. Burrorp<br />
Rawiines. 64 x 4. 45 pp. Isaac Pitman. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
Sones From Letyster. By W. M. Lurts. 7} x 5.<br />
114 pp. Smith Elder & Co. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
THe Wes oF Lirs. By Morean Dovetas.<br />
75 pp. Edinburgh: William J. Hay.<br />
<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
<br />
Tue Vision or Prers tHe Prowman. An English Poem<br />
of the Fourteenth Century. Translated into Modern<br />
Prose, with an Introduction by Karn M. Warren,<br />
Lecturer in English Language and Literature at West-<br />
field College (University of London). 74 x 5. 168 pp.<br />
Arnold. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
<br />
Tse FurtHer Evotution or Man. A Study from<br />
Observed Phenomena. By W. Hatt Catvert, M.D.<br />
7k x 5. 324 pp. Fifield. 5s. n.<br />
<br />
TECHNOLOGY.<br />
<br />
Printing. A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography<br />
By C. T. Jacozpr. (Fifth Edition Revised.) 7 x 4%.<br />
409 pp. Bell. 7s. 6d..<br />
<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
<br />
Tue Fourrotp Gospret. By E. A. Aspporr. 9 x 54.<br />
178 pp. Cambridge University Press. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
<br />
A Hanpzsook or Lancasnrre Prace-Names.<br />
SzpuTon. 8} x 54.<br />
<br />
74 x 5k.<br />
ls. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
By J.<br />
256 pp. Liverpool: Young. 6s.<br />
<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
<br />
THrovueH Frxuanp In Carts. By Mrs. Atec TwrEepiE.<br />
64 x 43. 476 pp. Nelson. ls. n.<br />
<br />
‘Tue Surczon’s Loa. By J. Jounston ABRAHAM. Seventh<br />
and Cheaper Edition. 7} x 5. 302 pp. Chapman &<br />
Hall. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
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LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
R. G. M. TREVELYAN’S “Life of<br />
John Bright,” is published by Messrs.<br />
Constable & Co. in one volume, price<br />
<br />
15s. net.<br />
<br />
“University and Historical Addresses,” a<br />
collection of lectures delivered in the United<br />
States by the Rt. Hon. James Bryce, will<br />
Bey be produced by Messrs. Macmillan<br />
<br />
0.<br />
<br />
The “ Collected Works ”’ of the late Francis<br />
Thompson have appeared in three volumes,<br />
two of poetry and one of prose, with some notes<br />
<br />
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<br />
by his literary executor, Mr. Wilfrid Meynell.<br />
The volumes are obtainable singly or in sets,<br />
6s. net each. Messrs. Burns and Oates are the<br />
publishers.<br />
<br />
Mr. B. T. Batsford has issued the first six<br />
volumes of a new series, small in size but<br />
ambitious in scope. They are entitled, collec-<br />
tively, ‘‘ The Fellowship Books,” and aim at<br />
reviving “‘ the elemental things whence springs<br />
all that makes life worth living, the factors<br />
that increase our common enjoyment of nature,<br />
poetry, and art.” The general editor is Mrs.<br />
Arthur Stratton, and the opening contributions<br />
to the series are: ‘‘ Friendship,” by Clifford<br />
Bax; ‘‘ The Joy of the Theatre,”’ by Gilbert<br />
Cannan; ‘‘ Divine Discontent,” by James<br />
Guthrie ; “‘ The Quest of the Ideal,’ by Grace<br />
Rhys; Springtime,’ by C. J. Tait; and<br />
‘“The Country,” by Edward Thomas.<br />
<br />
In “The Philosophy of Faith” (Messrs.<br />
Longmans, Green & Co., 3s. 6d. net), Mr.<br />
Bertram Brewster defends belief against the<br />
rationalists and scientists, discussing such<br />
conceptions as Truth, Virtue, Freedom, Beauty<br />
ete., up to the Highest Good. To him the<br />
inevitability of the new birth, or entry of the<br />
divine life into the soul, is ‘‘ the true hope of<br />
man : the only hope remaining to him, possibly<br />
in the long run.”<br />
<br />
Miss Ethel Colburn Mayne is bringing out in<br />
the autumn, through Messrs. Chatto & Windus,<br />
a book on the female characters in Browning’s<br />
works.<br />
<br />
‘* The English Poems of John Milton,’ from<br />
the edition of the Very Rey. H. C. Beeching,<br />
D.D., has been published by the Oxford Uni-<br />
versity Press in the World’s Classics Pocket<br />
Edition, 1s. net.<br />
<br />
Miss Kate M. Warren’s translation into<br />
modern prose of ‘‘ The Vision of Piers Plow-<br />
man,’’ with an introduction from her pen, has<br />
been republished by Mr. Edward Arnold. The<br />
text has been entirely revised since the two<br />
earlier editions of 1895 and 1899, and the<br />
annotations have also been revised and added<br />
to.<br />
<br />
Mr. W. Pett Ridge’s collection of short<br />
stories, “‘ Mixed Grill,’ has been issued by<br />
Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton at 38s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Miss M. P. Willcocks is publishing her new<br />
novel, “‘ The Power Behind,” in England with<br />
Messrs. Hutchinson, and in America with the<br />
Maemillan Co. By a curious chance, the first<br />
two titles selected, ‘‘ Fortune’s Fool” and<br />
“The Mouse Trap,’’ were found to have been<br />
already used. The book is said to be in many<br />
ways a return to the style of ‘“‘ The Wingless<br />
Victory.”<br />
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Mrs. Francis Channon’s new book, ‘ Miss<br />
King’s Profession,” will be published by<br />
Messrs. Mills & Boon early this month. It<br />
deals with the early experiences of a young<br />
author.<br />
<br />
Messrs. John Long, Ltd., will shortly publish<br />
a new novel entitled ‘‘ His American Wife,”’<br />
by George Henry Jessop, author of “ Judge<br />
Lynch,” ete. The subject of this story is a<br />
serious misunderstanding between husband<br />
and wife, arising out of the question how much<br />
of his time a public man can afford to devote<br />
to his wife.<br />
<br />
The same publishers have brought out, at<br />
the price of 3s. 6d., ‘‘ Wanderings and Wooings<br />
East of Suez,” a novel descriptive of a tour<br />
round the world, by Miss Ethel Boverton Red-<br />
wood.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Holden and Hardingham are the<br />
publishers of two new novels—* The Winning<br />
of Gwenora,”’ by Miss Edith C. Kenyon, author<br />
of “ The Wooing of Mifanwy ”; and ‘“‘ While<br />
the Music Lasts,” by Miss Julia MacDonald.<br />
<br />
Another historical romance from the pen of<br />
Miss May Wynne is announced by Messrs.<br />
Stanley Paul & Co. The scene is laid at the<br />
time of the French Revolution, during the<br />
siege of Carpentras by the followers of an<br />
Irishman named Patri, who band themselves<br />
together as the “‘ Brave Brigands ”—a _nick-<br />
name which gives the story its title.<br />
<br />
The same firm announces a new story by<br />
Miss Dolf Wyllarde, to be published during the<br />
holiday season. The book deals with the<br />
problem of a wife’s duty to her husband when<br />
he is serving his country in climates which<br />
would be disastrous to her health and to that<br />
of her baby. The title of the story is “ Youth<br />
Will be Served.”<br />
<br />
Miss Arabella Kenealy’s “‘ The Irresistible<br />
Mrs. Ferrers,’’ will be re-issued by Messrs.<br />
Stanley Paul & Co., its original publishers, in<br />
their 2s. net library. They announce also a<br />
2s. edition of “The Unholy Estate,” by<br />
Mr. Douglas Sladen, whose latest novel,<br />
“The Curse of the Nile,” is now in its fourth<br />
edition.<br />
<br />
Immediately after her husband’s death<br />
fifteen years ago, Mrs. Alec-Tweedie went off<br />
to Finland and wrote a book, “ Through Fin-<br />
land in Carts,” which was her first professional<br />
venture. She has now brought this thoroughly<br />
up to date, adding a new political appendix on<br />
present-day events in Finland and the position<br />
of women there both in and out of polities.<br />
Messrs. Thomas Nelson & Co. publish the new<br />
edition at 1s. ‘‘ Thirteen Years of a Busy<br />
Woman’s Life,” by the same author, which<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
appeared in October last, is now going into ¢o)u<br />
fifth edition.<br />
<br />
A fifth (revised) edition has just appeared of bow<br />
“Printing: a Treatise on the Art of Typo qyt<br />
graphy,” by Mr. Chas. T. Jacobi, of thea %&<br />
Chiswick Press. It is published by Messrs, G@) =<br />
Bell & Sons, at 7s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Mr. Humphrey Jordan, author of “ Theil?”<br />
Joyous Wayfarer,” has published a newoa<br />
romance, ‘‘ Patchwork Comedy.” In this, asi .4i<br />
in its predecessor, there are many vivid scenes, 91><br />
which take place in France, where the author ii<br />
lived the life of a student for several years, and as ~<br />
where he has spent much of his time wandering)!<br />
about with a knapsack. Mr. Jordan also.<br />
occupied the position of schoolmaster in Franee 37<br />
and has been a lecturer in a provincial French.<br />
university. Messrs. Putnams publish ‘“‘ Pateh- dois’<br />
work Comedy” here, and American and ins<br />
Australian editions have also appeared.<br />
<br />
The author who writes under the name of 5 »!<br />
“Sursum Corda” has published, through fue<br />
Messrs. McCorquodale & Co., a pamphlet sic<br />
entitled ‘‘ Broken Empires of the Past : Shall [ed@<br />
Britain Join Them?” being six lectures 917<br />
primarily intended for village use, for which bir<br />
lantern pictures can be supplied. The price of 0 ©<br />
the pamphlet is 6d. (7d. post free).<br />
<br />
“A Trip on a Trader, or Holidays Afloat ? © 46:<br />
is the title of a book, by Mr. Herbert W. Smith, Asis<br />
shortly to be published by Messrs. Madgwick, Jor<br />
Houlston & Co. The narrative opens with a 4 4<br />
schoolboy’s departure from Liverpool on board 91<br />
a Spanish cargo-boat, and ends with his return 171<br />
to London on an English steamer, having 96<br />
visited Carril, Ferrol, Vigo, Corunna, Cadiz,<br />
Lisbon, Malaga and Gibraltar. Many _ inei-<br />
dents enliven the journey, and the places #9»<br />
called at are fully described.<br />
<br />
Mr. F. Walcott Stoddard’s ‘‘ Tramps through #<br />
Tyrol” has recently appeared in a second §<br />
edition. The author is now engaged in writing =<br />
a book on Sweden.<br />
<br />
A volume of poems, “‘ The Web of Life,” by 44<br />
Morgan Douglas, has been published by the ©!<br />
firm of William J. Hay, John Knox’s Houses, ©?<br />
Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
An article by Mr. Gilbert Coleridge on 10<br />
London beggars appeared in the June ©<br />
number of the Cornhill. Its title is ‘“* The<br />
Little Brother of the Pavement.”<br />
<br />
We have received from the Authentic Infor-<br />
mation Agency, of Chancery Lane, the first 1<br />
number of a ‘‘ Weekly Index of Publications”<br />
(other than works of fiction), which the agency<br />
is issuing for the use of its clients. It is not 4?<br />
critical, but aims at clearly indicating the scope<br />
and contents of each work mentioned. Sub- -¢<br />
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" Mr. J. Arthur Hill has an article in The<br />
World’s Work for June, entitled “ The Truth<br />
about Hypnotism.”<br />
<br />
“4 Turkish Woman’s European Impres-<br />
sions,’ with a Preface, is the title of a work<br />
published by Messrs. Seeley, Service & Co. In<br />
this work Miss Jane Ellison has published<br />
letters written to her, providing an insight into<br />
the mind of the Eastern woman. The letters<br />
express the feelings of the woman of the Kast,<br />
in her secluded environment, and confronted<br />
with all those paradoxes called civilisation.<br />
They show how one of these women, wearying<br />
of the restraints imposed upon her, drifted into<br />
alien cities, only to realise that the life of<br />
London and Paris was unsuitable for one<br />
brought up as she had been.<br />
<br />
Mr. Morgan Douglas has issued through<br />
William J. Hay, of Edinburgh, a volume of<br />
lyrics and poems. The title of the volume is<br />
* The Web of Life,” and it contains thirty-five<br />
lyries and short poems.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Florence L. Barclay’s publishers, G. P.<br />
Putnam’s Sons, will publish in September a<br />
new long six-shilling novel by Mrs. Barclay,<br />
entitled ‘“‘ The Broken Halo.”<br />
<br />
We are glad to notice the attendances of<br />
Mr. Hall Caine, with other authors, at the<br />
dinner of the Associated Booksellers of Great<br />
Britain and Ireland, held last month. The<br />
dinner was held too late to enable us to deal<br />
with the various interesting questions covered<br />
by Mr. Hall Caine in his speech, proposing the<br />
toast of the Booksellers’ Association. Among<br />
the topics he mentioned, we notice the question<br />
of “the cheap reprint,” ‘the relations between<br />
authors and booksellers,” and the conditions<br />
of the bookselling trade generally. We notice<br />
that his speech has stirred Mr. Murray to write<br />
in reply, but Mr. Hall Caine has decidedly the<br />
best of the argument.<br />
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DRAMATIC.<br />
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Sir Arthur Pinero’s ‘“‘The Second Mrs.<br />
Tanqueray ” has been revived at the St.<br />
James’s Theatre, with Sir George Alexander<br />
and Mrs. Patrick Campbell in their original<br />
parts. Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘‘ Androcles and<br />
the Lion ”’ is announced for production at this<br />
theatre on September 2.<br />
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At the Apollo Theatre, on June 17, “ The<br />
Perfect Cure,’ a new three-act comedy by Mr.<br />
Stanley Houghton, was produced by Mr.<br />
charles Hawtrey.<br />
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Mr. C. Haddon Chambers has adapted the<br />
novel “ Tante ” for the stage, and is in negotia-<br />
tion for a London production. The American<br />
rights have been secured by Mr. Frohmann.<br />
<br />
Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy’s “ If I were<br />
King ” was revived at the Coronet Theatre on<br />
June 23.<br />
<br />
On June 8 and 9, Miss Ella Erskine gave at<br />
Cosmopolis, 201, High Holborn, two special<br />
performances of an entirely new version of<br />
*¢ Adrienne Lecouvreur,” freely adapted from<br />
the French by Mr. Cecil Howard-Turner. Miss<br />
Erskine herself undertook the title rdle.<br />
<br />
A new play by Mrs. Florence Eaton, author<br />
of “ The Triumph,” was recently produced at<br />
the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, under the title of<br />
“ Playing with Fire.”<br />
<br />
Mr. Herman Scheffauer’s play, “ The New<br />
Shylock,”’ has been accepted for publication<br />
and production in Germany—perhaps the first<br />
instance of the acceptance of an English or<br />
American playwright’s work in Germany prior<br />
to its production in his own country. The<br />
translation has been made by Herr L. Leon-<br />
hard, Mr. John Galsworthy’s translator.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Irene Osgood’s drama, ‘‘ Une Aventure<br />
du Capitaine Lebrun,” has been published in<br />
book form in Paris.<br />
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MUSICAL.<br />
<br />
Mr. Frazer Gange sang at the Bechstein<br />
Hall on June 9, “‘ From a Distance” (Heimweh),<br />
words from the Japanese, music by Mr. G.<br />
Jerrard Wilkinson. The song has been pub-<br />
lished by Messrs. Stainer & Bell.<br />
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PARIS NOTES.<br />
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< A MARCHANDE de Petits Pains pour les<br />
1, Canards,’’is the title of René Boylesve’s<br />
latest book. It is a collection of short<br />
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stories, each one of which is a masterpiece of<br />
psychological study. The woman who gets her<br />
living by selling bread for the ducks in the Bois<br />
de Boulogne is as simple and naive as Anatole<br />
France’s Crainquebille. She and her family<br />
are provincials, and their ideas as to the utility<br />
and all-powerfulness of members of Parliament<br />
are most amusing. The story of ‘* Mesdames<br />
Desblauze,”’is told with great skill and delicacy.<br />
The author is a past master in these provincial<br />
stories. He gives us a picture of Poitiers and<br />
of some of its inhabitants. We see the immense<br />
importance of the most trifling events, we hear<br />
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the gossip of the town, and we have an example<br />
of the simple heroism of two women who<br />
sacrifice their material well-being to their<br />
religious principles. It is one of the many<br />
hundreds of humble romances lived every day,<br />
romances which would pass unnoticed by all<br />
novelists not gifted with the rare observation<br />
and psychological insight of René Boylesve.<br />
The story entitled “ Les Quinqueton,”’ is one<br />
of the longest in the volume, another of the<br />
delightful provincial pictures, with the values,<br />
colouring, and atmosphere peculiar to this<br />
artist.<br />
<br />
Jean Bertheroy is singularly fortunate in<br />
giving us the atmosphere and local colour<br />
needed in_her old-world books. In “ Les<br />
Tablettes d’Erinna d’Agrigente,” we go back<br />
to the Sicily of the second century. Erinna is<br />
married to Isée and they have two children, a<br />
boy and a girl. Sicily is under the Roman<br />
yoke, and Erinna, in her diary, or tablettes,<br />
gives us an account of the daily life of herself<br />
and her household. The plot of the story is<br />
remarkably like that of “‘ The Guarded Flame,”<br />
with the exception that, in this case, the hus-<br />
band’s forbearance is no doubt actuated by the<br />
consciousness of his own delinquencies. Erinna<br />
has married a man nearly old enough to be her<br />
father. They are, nevertheless, very happy in<br />
a peaceful, quiet way. The young wife’s<br />
troubles begin when her husband engages a<br />
Roman steward. The great charm of the book<br />
is in the simplicity of its style. Erinna takes<br />
us back to the days of Marcus Aurelius. She<br />
shows us Sicily and the life of its people. She<br />
tells us of the beliefs and the various rites and<br />
ceremonies of her compatriots. There is a<br />
poetry in the everyday life of the little family<br />
which is most touching. The story is a modern<br />
one transplanted into the old world and made<br />
more picturesque by its setting.<br />
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“Témoins de Jours Passés,’” by Etienne<br />
Lamy, is the second volume of this series. The<br />
book is divided into three parts. In the first,<br />
the author gives us a study of Nicolas Bergasse,<br />
un Négateur de la Souveraineté populaire.<br />
Nicolas Bergasse was an advocate, and a<br />
member of the Paris Parliament, who lived<br />
through the stormy period between 1750 and<br />
1832. The second part of the book is devoted<br />
to the psychology of a man with revolutionary<br />
ideas, ‘‘ Le Conventionnel, André Dumont,”<br />
and the third to “La Renaissance de l’Etat<br />
Bulgare.”” The last study appeared first in<br />
Le Correspondant, so that some of the events<br />
foretold have now become accomplished facts.<br />
Many interesting historical facts are to be<br />
arnt from this chapter.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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“* L’Autre Miracle,”’ by Aimée Blech, is a<br />
clever psychological study. The story turns<br />
on the difficulties which ‘arise in a marriage<br />
between a woman who is staunch to her<br />
religion and a man who is an idealist, but<br />
who professes no religion at all. It is an<br />
essentially modern novel, showing us various<br />
types of so-called religious people. Amon<br />
the types chosen, we have an absolutely sin-<br />
cere Protestant, a Catholic, and a Theosophist.<br />
We then have certain professedly extreme<br />
Catholics, whose religion is in name only. As<br />
we so frequently see in real life, it is the man<br />
with no religious creed, whose life appears to<br />
be the finest and whose principles and ideas<br />
are carried out in every detail of his every-day<br />
life, whilst the lives of many of the so-called<br />
religious people are absolutely contemptible.<br />
From this book, we have a clear idea of the<br />
aims and doctrine of Theosophy. We see its<br />
wide outlook when one of its disciples explains<br />
to the rigid Catholic the unity of religions. The<br />
story itself is well told, and all the characters<br />
are living.<br />
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The theatres are beginning to close for the<br />
summer. The Odéon, the Gymnase, the<br />
Bouffes Parisiens, the Comédie Royale, the<br />
Capucines and the ThéAtre des Arts have all<br />
closed their doors already. A play entitled,<br />
“Vouloir,” by M. Gustave Guiches, is extremely<br />
modern and curious. The theme which the<br />
author has chosen is that of will-power, but<br />
the doctor who preaches it is not able to<br />
practise it when his own inclinations are con-<br />
cerned. The Théatre Réjane is now giving<br />
““Le Divorce de Mlle. Beulemans,”? and the<br />
Renaissance, ‘‘ Le Minaret.”’<br />
<br />
At the Salle Villiers we have had three<br />
excellent performances by Mr. Cecil J. Sharp’s<br />
English Folk Dance Society. The picturesque<br />
Morris and Sword Dances were quite a<br />
revelation to the French public, and the<br />
audience each time was most appreciative and<br />
enthusiastic. These performances, in Paris,<br />
were organised by Mr. Philip Carr, and on all<br />
sides we hear regrets that the Society is not<br />
staying longer. The dancing was perfect and<br />
the folk-songs charming. It was a revelation,<br />
not only to the French public, but to the<br />
English and American colonies in Paris, so<br />
that Mr. Sharp’s Society may count on an<br />
enthusiastic reception on its next visit to Paris.<br />
M. Tiersot, the well-known Librarian of the<br />
Conservatoire, introduced the English Company<br />
to the French public, and Yvette Guilbert gave<br />
the members a cordial welcome for their second<br />
matinée.<br />
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M. Camille de Sainte-Croix, the Director of<br />
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the French Shakespeare Company, is most<br />
- anxious to have an outdoor representation of<br />
the dances, during his season in the Saint-<br />
Cloud woods. M. de Sainte-Croix is inde-<br />
fatigable, and promises us a series of Shake-<br />
speare plays from June to October or November<br />
on Sundays and Thursdays. It is also sug-<br />
gested that the French Shakespeare Company<br />
should give a series of performances in England<br />
during the season. It would be interesting to<br />
see the same play given in English and F rench,<br />
on consecutive nights.<br />
Axtys HALLARD.<br />
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‘La Marchande de Petits Pains pour les Canards,’<br />
(Calmann- Lévy.)<br />
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“Les Tablettes<br />
Lévy.)<br />
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« Pémoins de Jours Passés.” (Calinann-Lévy.)<br />
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“TAutre Miracle.” (Perrin.)<br />
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@’Erinna d’Agrigente.” (Calmann-<br />
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A SAD AGREEMENT.<br />
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<br />
HE attention of the members of the<br />
Society of Authors may well be called<br />
to the following agreement :—<br />
<br />
Memoraxpum or AGREEMENT thade this sixth day of<br />
March, 1911, between —— (hereinafter termed the author)<br />
of the one part, and Joun Lanz, of the Bodley Head,<br />
London (hereinafter termed the Publisher) of the other<br />
part. Whereby it is mutually agreed between the parties<br />
hereto, for themselves and their respective executors,<br />
administrators and assigns (or successors as the case may<br />
be) as follows :—<br />
<br />
1. The Publisher shall at his own risk and expense, and<br />
with due diligence, produce and publish the work at present<br />
intituled by and use his best endeavours to sell<br />
the same.<br />
<br />
2. The Author guarantees to the Publisher that the said<br />
work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing<br />
copyright, and that it contains nothing of a libellous or<br />
scandalous character, and that he will indemnify the<br />
Publisher from all suits, claims and proceedings, damages<br />
and costs which may be made, taken, or incurred by or<br />
against him on the ground that the work is an infringement<br />
of copyright, or contains anything libellous or scandalous.<br />
<br />
3. ‘The Publisher shall during the legal term of copyright<br />
have the exclusive right of producing and publishing the<br />
work in the United Kingdom, the Colonies, India and in<br />
the United States of America. The Publisher shall have<br />
the entire control of the publication and sale and terms of<br />
sale of the book, and the Author shall not during the<br />
continuance of this Agreement (without the consent of the<br />
Publisher) publish or allow to be published any abridge-<br />
ment, portion, translation, or dramatized version of the<br />
work.<br />
<br />
4. The Publisher agrees to pay the Author the following<br />
royalties, that is to say :—<br />
<br />
(a) A royalty of ten per cent. (10%) on the published<br />
price of all copies sold (13 being reckoned as 12) of the<br />
British and American Edition jointly beyond 2,000<br />
copies.<br />
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(b) In the event of the Publisher disposing of copies<br />
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or editions at a reduced rate for sale in the Colonies, or<br />
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elsewhere, or a8 remainders, a royalty of ten per cent.<br />
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of the amount realised by such sale.<br />
<br />
(c) In the event of the Publisher realising profits<br />
from the sale of serial, Continental or other rights, or<br />
from claims for infringement of copyright, a royalty of<br />
fifty per cent. of the net amount of such profits remaining<br />
after deducting all expenses relating thereto.<br />
<br />
(d) No royalties shall be paid on any copies given<br />
away for review or other purposes.<br />
<br />
(e) The Author shall be entitled to six gratuitous<br />
copies, and any further copies required at trade price.<br />
<br />
(f) In the event of the Publisher deciding to re-issue<br />
this work in a cheaper form, the royalties payable to<br />
the Author upon such copies shall be the same as upon<br />
the English and American editions as hereinbefore<br />
stated, provided such do not exceed ten per cent. of<br />
the published price, which shall be the maximum, upon<br />
all copies sold (13 being reckoned as 12).<br />
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5. The Author agrees to revise the first, and if necessary<br />
to edit and revise every subsequent edition of the work,<br />
and from time to time to supply any new matter that may<br />
be needful to keep the work up to date.<br />
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6. The Author agrees that all costs of Author’s correc-<br />
tions and alterations in the proof sheets exceeding 20 per<br />
cent. of the cost of the composition shall be paid for by<br />
him.<br />
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7. In the event of the Author neglecting to revise an<br />
edition after due notice shall have been given to him, or<br />
in the event of the Author being unable to do so by reason<br />
of death, or otherwise, the expense of revising and prepar-<br />
ing each sueh future edition for press shall be borne by<br />
the Author, and shall be deducted from the royalties<br />
payable to him.<br />
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8. During the continuance of this agreement, the copy-<br />
right of the work shall be vested in the Author, who may<br />
be registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly.<br />
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9. The Publisher shall make up the account annually<br />
to December the thirty-first and deliver the same to the<br />
Author within three months thereafter, and pay the balance<br />
due to the Author on the same date.<br />
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10. If the Publisher shall at the end of three years from<br />
the date of publication, or at any time thereafter, give<br />
notice to the Author that, in his opinion, the demand for<br />
the work has ceased, or if the Publisher shall for six<br />
months after the work is out of print, decline, or, after due<br />
notice, neglect to publish a new edition, then and in either<br />
of such cases this Agreement shall terminate, and, on the<br />
determination of this Agreement in the above or any other<br />
manner, the right to print and publish the work shall<br />
revert to the Author, and the Author, if not then regis-<br />
tered, shall be entitled to be registered as the proprietor<br />
thereof, and to purchase from the Publisher forthwith<br />
the plates and moulds and blocks or plates of illustrations ,<br />
(if any) produced specially for the work, at half-cost of<br />
production and whatever copies the Publisher may have<br />
on hand at cost of production, and if the Author does not<br />
within three months purchase and pay for the said plates<br />
or moulds, blocks or plates of illustrations, and copies, the<br />
Publisher may at any time hereafter dispose of such plates<br />
or moulds, blocks or plates of illustrations and copies, or<br />
melt the plates, paying to the Author in lieu of royalties ten<br />
per cent. of the net proceeds of such sale, unless the<br />
Publisher can prove from his books that the publication<br />
has resulted in a loss to him, in which case he shall be<br />
liable for no such payment.<br />
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11. If any difference shall arise between the Author and<br />
the Publisher touching the meaning of this Agreement, or<br />
the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same<br />
shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons (one to<br />
be named by each party) or their umpire, in accordance<br />
with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889.<br />
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12. The term ‘“ Publisher ”’ throughout this Agreement<br />
shall be deemed to include the person or persons or Com-<br />
pany for the time being carrying on the business of the<br />
said John Lane, under as well its present as any future<br />
style, and the benefit of this Agreement shall be trans-<br />
missible accordingly.<br />
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13. The Author agrees to give the Publisher the offe<br />
of his next three books on the following terms :— :<br />
<br />
(a) On the British edition of his first book a royalty<br />
of ten per cent. (10%) on the published price of<br />
the first fifteen hundred (1,500) copies sold, and<br />
once per cent. (15%) on all subsequent copies<br />
sold.<br />
<br />
(b) On the British edition of his second book a<br />
royalty of twelve-and-a-half per cent. (124%) on<br />
the published price of the first fifteen hundred<br />
(1,500) copies sold, and fifteen per cent. (159%) on<br />
all subsequent copies sold.<br />
<br />
(c) On the British edition of his third book a royalty<br />
<br />
of fifteen per cent. (15%) on the published price ©<br />
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of the first two thousand five hundred (2,500)<br />
copies sold and twenty per cent. (20%) on all<br />
subsequent copies sold.<br />
<br />
14. If the Publisher be successful in arranging for any<br />
one or all of the above books (clause 13 (a), (b), (c) ) to be<br />
published in the United States of America, he agrees to<br />
pay to the Author a royalty of ten per cent. (10%) on the<br />
published price of the first five thousand (5,000) copies<br />
sold, and fifteen per cent. (15%) on all subsequent copies<br />
sold in each instance.<br />
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15. It is understood that 13 copies be reckoned as 12<br />
throughout this Agreement in accordance with the custom<br />
of the trade.<br />
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As witness the hands of the parties.<br />
<br />
On the first and second clauses, no special<br />
remark need be made. It must be noted,<br />
however, that the words in clause 1 “ with due<br />
diligence,” as regards the date on which the<br />
book shall be published, do not, with sufficient<br />
accuracy, determine the point. The author’s<br />
interpretation may be very different from the<br />
publisher’s. In the interest of the author, to<br />
whom the date of publication may be of great<br />
importance, the date should be more definitely<br />
fixed by such words as “ on or before the<br />
day of , time to be of the essence of the<br />
contract.”” Clause 2 gives the publisher too<br />
much freedom. The author should have a<br />
certain amount of control over the costs which<br />
may be incurred by the publishers ; but as a<br />
tule in the case of an ordinary novel, it is not<br />
<br />
very likely that a claim for the infringement |<br />
Therefore, |<br />
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of copyright would be brought.<br />
although from the legal point of view it is<br />
reasonable that the author should protect<br />
himself, yet, if he feels certain that his position<br />
is clear, he may sign the clause.<br />
<br />
Of course if he is to pay all costs of any libel<br />
action he will decide if such should be defended,<br />
the terms of any apology, and the conduct of<br />
the case.<br />
<br />
Clause 3 is a very important clause, and in it<br />
the author is giving to the publisher rights far<br />
beyond those the publisher should hold, especi-<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
ally when it is taken into consideration that<br />
in clause 4 the author is not to be paid a<br />
royalty until after the sale of 2,000 copies of<br />
the British and American editions. The<br />
publisher, in clause 8, should certainly be<br />
limited to publication in book form and to<br />
publication in the English language, and to<br />
publication at a fixed price or prices, and in<br />
fixed format or formats. It is advisable also,<br />
as a general rule, for an author to make an<br />
attempt to secure the American copyright for<br />
himself, but if he neglects or has failed to do this<br />
then the publisher should have the right to<br />
sellin sheets to the United States on proper<br />
terms. The other essential limitations as to<br />
the number of editions that the publisher<br />
should be allowed to publish, and as to the<br />
number of years during which the publisher<br />
should hold his licence have been explained<br />
at length in other numbers of The Author.<br />
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Clause 4 deals with the payment of royalties.<br />
The author is entitled (a) to 10 per cent. after<br />
the number of 2,000 copies of the English and<br />
American editions have been sold. This method<br />
of payment by a deferred royalty is very<br />
dangerous for the author. Indeed, examples<br />
have been brought to the notice of the Society<br />
in which a publisher has printed only the fixed<br />
number of copies 6n which the author is not<br />
entitled to a royalty, and has then broken up<br />
the type so that it was impossible for the author<br />
ever to obtain a return from the sale of his<br />
book. This we are glad to say has not been<br />
the case under the present agreement, as the<br />
publisher produced at the first printing nearly<br />
5,000 copies, and was certainly justified in<br />
doing so by the sales. Yet so far as the<br />
English and American editions are concerned,<br />
the author has not received a penny in<br />
royalties.<br />
<br />
That the author should, after the sale of<br />
2,000 copies of the English and American<br />
editions, only receive 10 per cent. is wholly<br />
unfair. If, in his ignorance or folly, he allows<br />
such a large number to be sold free of royalty,<br />
the publisher will by the time that number has<br />
been reached, not only have got back his<br />
original outlay, but will also have made a<br />
good profit on the money invested. What<br />
stimulus is there to push the book further ?<br />
But if the book does sell further, then the<br />
author should be entitled at the very lowest<br />
to 80 per cent. of the published price on the<br />
next 2,000 copies and a substantial royalty<br />
after 4,000 have been disposed of. One method<br />
by which the author can protect himself, if he<br />
is foolish enough to join in this deferred royalty<br />
system, is to insist on the publisher producing<br />
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a fixed number of copies considerably in excess<br />
_ of the number on which he is to receive no<br />
return, and to insist also on a clause in the<br />
agreement by which the publisher undertakes<br />
to advertise up to a fixed sum, and to vouch<br />
his advertisements. It is generally with the<br />
pait of wide advertising that the publisher<br />
tempts the author into the deferred royalty<br />
agreement.<br />
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The next paragraph (b) in the same clause is<br />
entirely unsatisfactory. It is a matter of<br />
common knowledge that copies are sold to<br />
the colonies generally in sheets at a reduced<br />
rate, and on these copies, 3d, 4d., or even 5d.<br />
a copy is paid to the author. The sheets<br />
realise about 1s. or perhaps a little less. H<br />
they realise 1s. a sheet then 3d. a copy would<br />
be 25 per cent. If they realise 10d. a<br />
sheet then 3d. a copy would be about<br />
30 per cent., so that when the publisher<br />
offers 10 per cent. on the amount<br />
realised he is offering a very low royalty<br />
indeed; even if the copies are sold cheaply<br />
bound in a special colonial edition, 10 per cent.<br />
is an exceedingly low royalty, but in no<br />
circumstances should the publisher be allowed<br />
to sell ‘elsewhere’? or ‘as remainders ”<br />
without some further limitations. He cer-<br />
tainly should not be allowed to sell the book<br />
as ‘remainders ” within three years from the<br />
date of publication, and the author should<br />
have the option of purchase at remainder<br />
prices.<br />
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The next paragraph (c) is also greatly to the<br />
detriment of the author. The publisher should<br />
have no power to sell the rights mentioned<br />
without reference to the author, and in no<br />
_cireumstances should he be allowed to take as<br />
much as 50 per cent. for work that an agent<br />
would do for 10 per cent. If the author<br />
is willing to employ the publisher as his agent<br />
for the sale of these rights, then the clause<br />
should run somewhat on the following lines :—<br />
“Tf through the agency of the publisher any<br />
' of the minor rights are sold, under an agreement<br />
signed and approved by the author, then, and<br />
in that case the author agrees to pay to the<br />
publisher 10 per cent. as agency charges on<br />
the amount due under the contract as and when<br />
received.” As the author’ should give to the<br />
publisher only the right of publication in<br />
book form, the question of the right of the<br />
publisher to sue for infringement of copyright<br />
will not rise, but the author should have the<br />
power in his own hands to take what action he<br />
thinks fit, though it is not unreasonable,<br />
should he be unwilling to take action, that some<br />
arrangement should be made by which the<br />
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publisher could take up the matter himself in<br />
order to protect his rights acquired under the<br />
contract.<br />
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With regard to the next two paragraphs<br />
(d) and (e) a great deal could be written, but<br />
paragraph (f) is much more impoctant. The<br />
publisher of a work in 6s. form should not<br />
necessarily have the right to publish in a cheap<br />
edition at all unless he is a recognised publisher<br />
of booksinthat form. But if he has the right,<br />
then he should be limited in various ways. It<br />
should be clearly stated that he should not be<br />
allowed to publish in cheap edition within<br />
three years from the date of publication of the<br />
original without the sanction of the author.<br />
He should be bound to exercise the option<br />
within a certain time, say, four years in all.<br />
If he has not exercised his option, then his<br />
right of publication in cheap form should<br />
lapse, and should revert to the author. It<br />
is best, however for the author, whenever<br />
it is possible, to reserve the right of cheap<br />
publication, and only grant a licence to publish<br />
at a fixed price. Then again, it is a matter<br />
of great importance that the author should<br />
have a veto on the form in which the cheap<br />
edition will be published, for many authors<br />
dislike the more permanent form of cheap<br />
editions at 1s. or 7d., but are quite willing to<br />
allow their books to be produced at 6d. Again,<br />
some question has arisen about the extent to<br />
which a publisher may advertise in a 6d.<br />
edition. If the author has any special objec-<br />
tion to advertisements, he should guard<br />
against these in the agreement. To sum up<br />
on these two paragraphs, an author should<br />
bind the publisher to exercise his option of<br />
publication of the cheap edition within a<br />
certain time, and further should limit the<br />
publisher as to the form in which, and the<br />
price at which, the cheap edition should be<br />
produced. This is of increasing importance<br />
owing to the popular demand for cheap<br />
editions.<br />
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Clause 5 is merely a case of careless drafting<br />
on the part of the publisher. The clause does<br />
not really refer to a novel, but as it happened<br />
to be in the agreement, the publisher never<br />
thought of taking it out.<br />
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In clause 6 the amount that is allowed for<br />
corrections is not very liberal. Most pub-<br />
lishers will allow 25 per cent. of the cost of<br />
composition, and some publishers even more.<br />
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Clause 7, again, like clause 5, has practically<br />
no reference to a novel.<br />
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Clause 8 is superfluous and ill-informed.<br />
If the author only gives the publisher the<br />
exclusive right of printing and publishing<br />
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in certain countries, he is not thereby<br />
transferring the copyright, so that no special<br />
clause is necessary to point this out, and under<br />
the Copyright Act of 1911, all registration has<br />
been done away with.<br />
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Clause 9 is unsatisfactory. A publisher<br />
ought to render accounts biennially, at any<br />
rate during the first two or three years from<br />
the date of the agreement while the book is<br />
selling freely.<br />
<br />
Clause 10, although it is a clause which has<br />
been approved by the Publishers’ Association,<br />
is drafted very indefinitely, and anything that<br />
tends to indefiniteness in a legal document is<br />
to be regretted. This remark refers to the<br />
words ‘‘if the publishers shall for six months<br />
after the work is out of print, decline, or, after<br />
due notice, neglect to publish a new edition.”<br />
To begin with six months is much too long,<br />
for if the publisher thinks there is any<br />
money to be made, he will not want to delay<br />
publication for as long as six months, whereas,<br />
if the author wants to reissue the book,<br />
he ought to get control long before six months<br />
have expired. While the term set out does<br />
not benefit the publisher, it is of considerable<br />
inconvenience to the author. Then the words<br />
“decline or after due notice neglect ” might<br />
lead to much difficulty, for the publisher might<br />
not directly decline to republish and might<br />
keep the author dragging on for a considerable<br />
period beyond six months ; and in thesame way<br />
he might not directly neglect to republish, or<br />
if he did it might be very difficult for the author<br />
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to ascertain whether he had been neglectful. It /<br />
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would be much better, therefore, to have a<br />
clause somewhat on the following lines :—<br />
“If after three months’ notice in writing, the<br />
publisher has not put on the market a new<br />
edition of at least 500 copies (Note, this number<br />
to show his bona fides), then the agreement<br />
shall be terminated and all rights therein shall<br />
return to author.” Here it is quite clear that<br />
at a certain fixed date, that is, three months<br />
after the notice has been given, the author<br />
regains command if the book has not been put<br />
on the market. Registration being no longer<br />
necessary, the words following in the same<br />
clause again show the unfamiliarity of the<br />
publisher with copyright law.<br />
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Clause 11 is for a great many reasons very<br />
objectionable from the author’s point of<br />
view. If the publisher breaks his agreement<br />
and the matter is referred to arbitration, the<br />
publisher escapes from the publicity which is<br />
essential as a warning to other authors ;<br />
besides arbitration, especially in matters where<br />
points of law are concerned and not points of<br />
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fact, is as a rule unsatisfactory, and often very<br />
expensive.<br />
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Every publishing agreement should be<br />
personal to the publisher, and it is a mistake,<br />
therefore, to allow such a clause as clause 12<br />
to be inserted. Many authors might have no<br />
objection to their books being produced by the<br />
publisher with whom they sign an agreement,<br />
but in case of his death or bankruptcy, they<br />
might strongly object to the agreement being<br />
taken over by another publisher.<br />
<br />
It is necessary to say very little about<br />
clause 13. It is always objectionable for an<br />
author to bind himself to a publisher for more<br />
than one book, and it is more than objectionable<br />
that he should bind himself to a publisher for<br />
more than one book on fixed and inadequate<br />
terms. The publisher’s response is, “* Oh, but<br />
I can spend so much more on your first book<br />
in advertising, if I know that I shall reap the<br />
benefit by getting the publication of the second<br />
and third books.’? Note also that a similar<br />
remark may be put forward to induce the<br />
author to sign for a deferred royalty. The<br />
author should say, ‘‘ Will you undertake, in<br />
your agreement, to advertise my first and<br />
subsequent books to the extent of £ and<br />
to vouch these advertisements, should I think<br />
it necessary?” The publisher would in most<br />
cases refuse to do so. There is nothing left<br />
if the author accepts the position of this<br />
agreement but to trust in the good faith of<br />
the publisher.<br />
<br />
It has already been pointed out when dis-<br />
cussing the first sub-heading of clause 4, that<br />
if a publisher pays no royalty on the first<br />
2,000 copies, there is a risk lest he should<br />
make no endeavour to push the sales beyond<br />
that point. The same danger arises here. A<br />
publisher, knowing that he has the next three<br />
or four books of the author, may not trouble to<br />
push the sales of the first book beyond such an<br />
amount as will bring him the return of his<br />
original outlay and a good percentage on his<br />
money. This is so much easier, where the<br />
publisher, as in the present case, pays no<br />
royalty on the first 2,000 copies sold. If any<br />
of the next three books prove a success the<br />
terms put forward are wholly inadequate. Any<br />
publisher, if a book is a success and runs into<br />
thousands of copies, would be willing to pay an<br />
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author 25 per cent. from the beginning, with a<br />
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considerable advance. Therefore, clause 18,<br />
even in ordinary circumstances gives all the<br />
advantage to the publisher, but if any of the<br />
books are a success he might make a con-<br />
siderable profit with but little return to the<br />
author. One more point: the date of pub-<br />
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lication for the future works is not fixed.<br />
Now this is of vital importance to an author<br />
who is entering into other contracts for serial<br />
issue. Even if the date the publisher<br />
arbitrarily sets down for publication does not<br />
interfere with other contracts, it may for<br />
other reasons be wholly disadvantageous to<br />
the author.<br />
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In clause 14 the terms which the publisher<br />
proposes for the American copyright are very<br />
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unsatisfactory. It is much better for an<br />
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author to have a separate agreement for<br />
publication of his American edition with an<br />
American publisher, than to allow the matter<br />
to lie in the hands of one publisher only. It<br />
has often been pointed out in The Author that<br />
a book published successfully in America will<br />
bring in to the author, even at a lower percen-<br />
tage, probably a much larger figure than it<br />
will bring in in England, because the circulation<br />
is likely to be so much larger.<br />
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Now what has been the result of this<br />
agreement in actual practice? It would<br />
appear that the pubisher has sold some<br />
3,600 copies in different countries and at<br />
different prices. As far as England and<br />
America are concerned, the sales are some<br />
800 short of the number required to pro-<br />
duce a royalty. Out of the sales in other<br />
countries the author has made some £10 10s.<br />
Allowing that the publisher has advertised the<br />
book to a reasonable extent, he has made<br />
most probably 50 per cent. to 60 per cent. on<br />
his outlay.<br />
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THE COMMERCIAL SIDE OF MUSIC.<br />
ACCOUNT CLAUSE.<br />
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1% the June number of The Author an<br />
article was published giving an account<br />
of the commercial side of music produc-<br />
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tion, and a copy of the document that music<br />
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publishers are in the habit of asking composers<br />
to sign was printed as a warning.<br />
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The article explained that the document was<br />
not really an agreement in the ordinary sense<br />
of the word, as the composer assigned all of<br />
what he stood possessed and the publisher<br />
undertook practically to do nothing.<br />
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Amongst the omissions. from the document<br />
was an ordinary clause for the delivery of<br />
accounts. This omission, even from the pub-<br />
lisher’s point of view, was foolish, because if<br />
the dates and seasons for accounting are not<br />
settled the composer would have the right to<br />
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claim a rendering at any reasonable time.<br />
But the very omission shows the off-hand<br />
manner in which the publishers treat those<br />
on whose brains they grow rich and prosper.<br />
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When the attention of the Composers’ Sub-<br />
Committee was called to the omission, they<br />
instructed the secretary to write a circular<br />
letter to publishers pointing out that for their<br />
own sake as well as for the sake of the com-<br />
posers, it would be a good thing if some<br />
uniform arrangement could be come to.<br />
<br />
Accordingly the following letter was drafted<br />
and despatched to twenty-one well-known<br />
publishers :—<br />
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Dear Sirs,—It appears that in many documents for the<br />
publication of their works which composers have been<br />
asked to sign, although they retain a continuing interes}<br />
by way of royalty, no formal account clause is inserted<br />
indicating when the accounts are to be rendered. As you<br />
may be aware it is the invariable custom of publishers of<br />
books to insert an account clause into their agreements.<br />
The Composers’ Sub-Committee of the above Society,<br />
therefore, have asked me to approach you in regard to this<br />
matter. They consider it would affect a great saving of<br />
the publishers’ time, and facilitate the business dealings of<br />
composers and publishers, if it were possible to come to<br />
some uniform arrangement by which publishers would<br />
undertake to render accounts at fixed dates. At present,<br />
no account clause being inserted, the composer is entitled<br />
to demand accounts from the publisher at any time, and as<br />
often as he likes, within reason; this position is clearly<br />
quite unsatisfactory.<br />
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The Composers’ Sub-Committee suggest, therefore, that<br />
accounts should be rendered twice annually, made up to the<br />
31st December and the 30th June, the accounts being<br />
rendered and the sum being paid within one month from<br />
these dates.<br />
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If this suggestion meets with your approval, I should be<br />
much indebted to you if you would write me a letter to that<br />
effect, stating at the same time that you are willing to<br />
insert this clause in your agreements.<br />
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The names of the publishers falling in with this sugges-<br />
tion, which is an eminently practicable one, will be pub-<br />
lished in The Author for the benefit of composers who are<br />
seeking to place their works.<br />
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IT remain,<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
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From this list the following neglected to send<br />
an answer. The names are printed in alphabe-<br />
tical order so that there can be no claim to<br />
preference in discourtesy.<br />
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Messrs. Chappell & Co., Ltd.<br />
Elkin & Co., Ltd.<br />
Keith, Prowse & Co.<br />
Metzler & Co.<br />
Reynolds & Co.<br />
Ricordi & Co.<br />
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,», Schott & Co.<br />
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As the circular was sent out in the hope of<br />
making regular an acknowledged irregularity,<br />
and of simplifying and adjusting the relations<br />
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between author and publisher, there was every<br />
reason why the publishers should have<br />
welcomed the chance of meeting the composers<br />
in a fair way.<br />
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It is pleasing, however, to state that twelve<br />
publishers, that is, the majority, did reply.<br />
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Messrs. Novello & Co.’s reply was charac-<br />
teristic, and, as such, may be quoted in full :—<br />
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“DEAR Srr,—We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your<br />
letter of the 22nd inst.<br />
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“We are, Yours faithfully,<br />
‘““NOVELLO & Co.”<br />
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Messrs. Boosey & Co. beg to say that their<br />
relations with their composers are of a most<br />
amicable kind, and they see no reason whatever<br />
to make any alterations in their agreements.<br />
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It is pleasant to think of those most amicable<br />
arrangements, but after all, rumours of dissatis-<br />
faction have been vibrating the air. As far<br />
as the latter part of the letter is concerned the<br />
circular asked for no alteration, but made a<br />
reasonable business proposal.<br />
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The answers from the remaining publishers<br />
gave the information invited. It is satisfac-<br />
tory to composers to have the list of those<br />
whose agreements do contain the necessary<br />
account clauses; though it is not necessarily<br />
a logical deduction that because a publisher<br />
has not answered the circular, he is therefore<br />
lax in rendering his accounts.<br />
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Messrs. Ascherberg, H opwood & Co. state<br />
that their accounts are made up half-yearly,<br />
on June 30 and December 31, and that these<br />
dates are mentioned in their agreements.<br />
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Messrs. Augener state that it is provided in<br />
their copyright forms that “ royalties will be<br />
paid when the next succeeding edition is<br />
printed.” In answer to a further question as<br />
to the size of an edition they were kind<br />
enough to state “ that as a rule, according to<br />
their experience, they figure on printing a<br />
six months’ supply for a first edition and a<br />
one year’s supply for the following editions.”<br />
While the information that has been given<br />
is of undoubted importance to composers,<br />
still the method cannot be commended, and<br />
the very answer shows how necessary the<br />
action of the sub-committee has been.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Cary & Co. make up their royalty<br />
accounts January 1 and July 1, and discharge<br />
the same about two months later.<br />
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Messrs. John Church & Co. reply that they<br />
have such a clause as the one indicated, i.e.,<br />
half-yearly accounts, in their agreements with<br />
composers.<br />
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Messrs. Curwen & Sons make up their<br />
accounts annually to May 81, and these are<br />
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rendered and paid within three months. This<br />
is stated in the agreement.<br />
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Messrs. J. B. Cramer & Co., Litd., express<br />
their sympathy with the object the Society<br />
has in view. They have a clause in their<br />
agreements for half-yearly settlements.<br />
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Messrs. Enoch & Son make half-yearly<br />
settlements to the end of June and December,<br />
but do not find it possible in every case to pay<br />
within one month.<br />
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Messrs. B. Fieldman & Co. make a practice<br />
of paying royalties half-yearly, and do their<br />
utmost to make same up and settle in January<br />
and July.<br />
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Messrs. Francis, Day and Hunter<br />
accounts and statements twice annually to<br />
June 30 and December 31, and render the<br />
statements and pay the amounts due within<br />
two months of the said dates,<br />
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Messrs. Hawkes & Son state that two<br />
members of the Composers’ Sub-Committee<br />
for whom they publish are perfectly satisfied<br />
with their methods ‘ which, in point of fact,<br />
are a little more strictly business-like than that<br />
form requested by you.”<br />
<br />
It is to be regretted that this firm has not<br />
given information as to these methods.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Weekes & Co. enclosed a form of<br />
their agreement. (This is not the place to<br />
comment on the wording of the document.)<br />
Composers are referred to the June number<br />
dealing with transfer of copyright.) We desire<br />
‘to express our thanks to Messrs. Weekes for<br />
their courtesy. The document states that a<br />
proper statement of account is rendered in the<br />
months of January and J uly.<br />
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Messrs. J. Williams, Ltd., make settlements<br />
for all royalties due to composers and authors<br />
every six months (March and September).<br />
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To sum up: Nine publishers have not<br />
answered the circular. They may include an<br />
account clause in their agreements or they<br />
may not. In some cases it is known that<br />
they donot. Of the twelve who have answered<br />
two give no information on the point, but ten<br />
have put forward full particulars, and out of<br />
these ten, nine render semi-annual and one<br />
annual accounts. The circular has been fully<br />
justified by the result and the answers will be<br />
of value to those composers who are negotiating<br />
for the production of their works. The sub-<br />
committee have to thank those publishers<br />
who have so readily and fully replied.<br />
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DRAMATISATION OF A NOVEL.<br />
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INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT.<br />
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Corelli v. Gray.<br />
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N this action Miss Marie Corelli, the well-<br />
| known authoress, claimed damages and<br />
an injunction against Mr. George Gray<br />
to prevent him from performing a sketch<br />
entitled ‘“‘The People’s King,’’ which had<br />
been presented at certain variety theatres, on<br />
the ground that it was an infringement of the<br />
plaintiff's copyright in her novel, called<br />
“¢ Temporal Power.”<br />
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The novel was written in 1902, and under the<br />
new Copyright Act the plaintiff's copyright<br />
includes the right of dramatisation. The<br />
defendant did not question the plaintiff's<br />
copyright in the novel, but alleged that the<br />
play was an adaptation or condensed version<br />
of an earlier play called ‘‘ In the King’s Name,”<br />
which he had written wholly independently of<br />
the novel and some eight years before the novel<br />
was published.<br />
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There were numerous resemblances between<br />
the novel and the play in respect of the<br />
characters, situations, and dialogue ; and the<br />
defendant admitted _ similarities, but he<br />
described them as chance coincidences or<br />
“stock situations.” As an example of the<br />
similarities, it may be mentioned that in the<br />
novel a prince marries a princess for State<br />
reasons, and she tells him that she will do her<br />
duty to him and to the State, but that she<br />
cannot love him. The prince, after becoming<br />
king, joins a group of revolutionaries under<br />
the name of Pasquin Leroy. In the play, a<br />
prince marries a princess for State reasons, and<br />
she tells him that she will honour and obey<br />
him, but that she cannot love him. The<br />
prince joins a group of revolutionaries under<br />
the name of Leo Lerois. Again, in the novel<br />
the revolutionaries draw lots as to who shall<br />
kill the prime minister and the king, and<br />
before drawing lots they swear that whoever<br />
draws the signal to take a life proved unworthy<br />
shall be regarded by them as a sacred person.<br />
Leroy draws the king. He makes a speech,<br />
and then announces that he is ready to obey<br />
and that he is the king. In the play the<br />
revolutionaries draw lots as to who shall kill<br />
the two chief ministers and the king, and<br />
before drawing lots they swear that the life<br />
of whoever draws the sign of having to kill<br />
the king shall be held sacred. Lerois draws<br />
the king. He makes a speech and_then<br />
announces that he is ready to obey and that<br />
he is the king.<br />
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Other similarities were so substantial that<br />
it was obvious that the two compositions must<br />
have been taken from a common source, OT<br />
that one was copied from the other. The<br />
defendant, however, did not suggest any<br />
definite common source for the two works,<br />
other than the general common stock of<br />
ideas; and he expressly disclaimed in the<br />
course of the case the hypothesis that the novel<br />
was based upon his play, although he stated<br />
that he did not know what had happened to<br />
a second copy of ‘In the King’s Name”<br />
which he had lost at an early period in “‘a<br />
Flect Street hostelry.”” The defendant called<br />
witnesses to whom his earlier play had been<br />
read or submitted, but their recollection of the<br />
incidents in the play were necessarily extremely<br />
vague and they could remember little more<br />
than that it contained a floral scene, which<br />
had been one of the main reasons for the non-<br />
acceptance of the play, owing to the expense<br />
which it involved.<br />
<br />
Mr. Justice Sargant, in delivering judgment,<br />
commented upon the defendant’s evidence,<br />
which he regarded as unsatisfactory. * The<br />
defendant’s story,” his lordship said, ‘‘ falls<br />
very short of such a clear, consistent, and<br />
convincing narrative as would have been<br />
required to cast doubt on the very strong<br />
inference, amounting in my view to a practical<br />
certainty, which is to be deduced from the<br />
similarities in the two works ; and I am<br />
convinced that the defendant’s sketch has not<br />
been written independently of the plaintiff's<br />
novel.” His lordship granted the injunction<br />
and ordered an account of the profits to be<br />
taken and that the defendant should deliver<br />
up the copies of the play, which infringed the<br />
plaintiff's copyright, and pay the plaintiff’s<br />
costs.<br />
<br />
The issue in the case was a question of fact,<br />
but the judge made some observations on the<br />
law which may be quoted. “In the first<br />
place,” his lordship said, “it is fairly clear<br />
that under the new Act no absolute monopoly<br />
is given to authors analogous to that which<br />
is conferred on inventors of patents—that is<br />
to say, if it could be shown as a matter of<br />
fact that two precisely similar works were<br />
produced wholly independently of one another,<br />
I do not think that the author of the work<br />
that was published first would be entitled to<br />
restrain the publication by the other author<br />
of that author’s independent and original<br />
work. The right appears to be merely a<br />
negative right to prevent the appropriation of<br />
the labours of an author by another. The<br />
second observation is this, that the onus 0<br />
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establishing appropriation, of course, rests<br />
upon the plaintiff.”<br />
Haroutp Harpy.<br />
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Oo<br />
<br />
RIDGE v. THE “ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED<br />
MAGAZINE” (LIMITED).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
R. W. PETT RIDGE, on the 12th in-<br />
oe stant, obtained a verdict and sub-<br />
stantial damages (£150) against the<br />
“English Illustrated Magazine,” Ltd., for pub-<br />
lishing under the name of “ W. Pett Ridge ”’ in<br />
their magazine a short story called ‘‘ The Man<br />
who had a Conscience,” which was not the<br />
work of its reputed author.<br />
<br />
This story bears no comparison to the<br />
genuine work of Mr. Pett Ridge, although<br />
obviously intended to imitate it, and, being<br />
very inferior, was necessarily injurious to the<br />
plaintiff's reputation as a writer,<br />
<br />
On this head Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, who<br />
gave evidence on behalf of Mr. Pett Ridge, was<br />
emphatic. He explained to the jury that, if he<br />
were still a magazine editor planning out for<br />
the future, he should, after reading ‘“‘ The Man<br />
who had a Conscience,’”? have dismissed any<br />
idea of applying to Mr. Pett Ridge for contri-<br />
butions. The one conclusion to be arrived at<br />
by reading the story was that Mr. Pett Ridge<br />
had had an illness or something which had left<br />
him unfit for further work.<br />
<br />
How the tale came to be published was<br />
graphically detailed by the temporary acting<br />
editor of the defendant company’s magazine.<br />
The manuscript was received by post, signed<br />
“'W. Pett Ridge,” and giving an address in<br />
Bournemouth, but without any covering letter.<br />
The defendant’s witnesses readily admitted<br />
that the story was not up to Mr. Pett Ridge’s<br />
level of excellence, and, in consequence, they<br />
offered, and the writer accepted, as his remu-<br />
neration, a sum of two guineas for eighteen<br />
columns !<br />
<br />
As long ago as August last the writer of the<br />
story (whose name was not Pett Ridge or any-<br />
thing like it) wrote to the editor of the defen-<br />
dant company’s magazine advising him that<br />
“The Man who had a Conscience ” was not the<br />
work of William Pett Ridge; yet, notwith-<br />
standing this disclaimer, the editor, apparently<br />
acting under instructions, failed to apologise,<br />
or make any reparation in respect of the<br />
publication of the story.<br />
<br />
The plaintiff consultéd the Society of Authors<br />
and, as a consequence, this action was brought.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
The grounds upon which the plaintiff’s claim<br />
was based were that he had been libelled in his<br />
profession as a writer and that the defendant<br />
company had passed off on the public as the<br />
work of an author of reputation the feeble<br />
attempt of an obscure penman.<br />
<br />
The Judge (Darling, J.) ruled that in law, on<br />
proof of both or either of these allegations, the<br />
plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, and, after an<br />
absence of twenty minutes, the jury returned<br />
a verdict for the plaintiff with £150 damages.<br />
<br />
The allegation of libel was interesting and<br />
novel.<br />
<br />
Obviously to call Mr. Pett Ridge “ a com-<br />
monplace scribbler ”’ was a libel, but the prin-<br />
ciple was extended in this case, it being held<br />
by the Judge that, if the jury came to the con-<br />
clusion that the natural consequence of anyone<br />
reading “The Man who had a Conscience ”<br />
would be that the reader would put the writex<br />
down as a mere commonplace scribbler, then<br />
equally a libel had been published against<br />
Mr. Pett Ridge.<br />
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MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
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British Review.<br />
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The Origin and Significance of Profanity. By A. E.<br />
Beath.<br />
Herr Nikisch and “ The Ring.” By Sir Home Gordon<br />
Hart.<br />
CoNTEMPORARY.<br />
<br />
Glimpses of Thomas Carlyle. By Percy Fitzgerald.<br />
<br />
ENGLIsH.<br />
Writing Novels. By Arnold Bennett.<br />
Our “ atenphaly * Hymnal. By Professor W. H. D.<br />
Rouse.<br />
<br />
The Correspondence of Nietzsche with Brandes.<br />
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FortTNIGHTLY.<br />
<br />
Lord Cromer on Disraeli. By Wilfrid Ward.<br />
<br />
Realistic Drama (11). By W. L. Courtney.<br />
<br />
Mr. Masefield’s Poetry. By Gilbert Thomas.<br />
<br />
The Death of Satire.” By Herman Scheffauer.<br />
<br />
The Chinese Drama, Yesterday and To-day.<br />
Corbe tt-Smith.<br />
<br />
By A.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
<br />
ot<br />
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1, VERY member has a right toask for and to receive<br />
EK advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel’s opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel’s<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers’ agreements do not fall within the experi-<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
<br />
8. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer<br />
<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members’ agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of thesafe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society’s work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are Tecommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members,<br />
<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
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<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
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+<br />
<br />
ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :—<br />
<br />
I, Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, ¢f a proper price can be<br />
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obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
<br />
Il. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement),<br />
<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,”<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
<br />
Sa Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor ! ;<br />
<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
<br />
The main points are :—<br />
<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,<br />
<br />
General.<br />
<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :—<br />
<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
tothe author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
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<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
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+ —<br />
<br />
EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
<br />
2, It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :—<br />
<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills,<br />
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<br />
(b.) Sale of performing right or of a licence te<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system, Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages, A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
<br />
(¢.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (ie., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect, The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (.) apply<br />
also in this case,<br />
<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in anyevent, It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved,<br />
<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important,<br />
<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance,<br />
<br />
7, Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed-<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration,<br />
<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced,<br />
<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning,<br />
<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication,<br />
<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
<br />
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<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
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<br />
Ne eee typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary ora qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 2s. 6d. per act.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR,<br />
<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
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<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage’ on the author’s fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
<br />
Society.<br />
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WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
<br />
ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
iL assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with—performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above,<br />
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STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members’ stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble,<br />
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THE READING BRANCH.<br />
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<br />
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
<br />
Vi branch of its work by informing young writer:<br />
<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but Poetry<br />
<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea,<br />
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<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
—_—<br />
<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
COLLECTION BUREAU.<br />
<br />
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<br />
ag due to authors, composers and dramatists.<br />
1. Under contracts for the publication of their<br />
works.<br />
<br />
9. Under contracts for the performance of their works<br />
and amateur fees.<br />
<br />
3. Under the Compulsory Licence Clauses of the Copy-<br />
right Act, i.e., Clause 3, governing compulsory licences for<br />
books, and Clause 19, referring to mechanical instrument<br />
records.<br />
<br />
The Bureau is divided into three departments :—<br />
<br />
1. Literary.<br />
2. Dramatic.<br />
3. Musical.<br />
<br />
The Society does not desire to make a profit from the<br />
collection of fees, but will charge a commission to cover<br />
expenses. If, owing to the amonnt passing through the<br />
office, the expenses are more than covered, the Committee<br />
of Management will discuss the possibility of reducing the<br />
commission.<br />
<br />
For full particulars of the terms of collection, application<br />
must be made to the Collection Bureau of the Society.<br />
<br />
AGENTS.<br />
<br />
A. REYDING.<br />
WALTER C. JORDAN.<br />
<br />
Amsterdam<br />
New York<br />
<br />
The Bureau is in no sense a literary or dramatic<br />
agency for the placing of books or plays.<br />
<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
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<br />
Mempers of the Society are reminded that<br />
The Author does not appear in August or<br />
September. The next issue will be published<br />
on October 1st.<br />
<br />
Str JAMES BARRIE, BART.<br />
<br />
We must congratulate Sir James Barrie<br />
on the honour conferred upon him on the<br />
King’s birthday, an honour justly deserved.<br />
<br />
Sir James represents both sides of the<br />
profession, the literary and the dramatic.<br />
His ‘‘ Margaret Ogilvie ” on the one side and<br />
“Peter Pan” on the other have already<br />
shown that they can stand the test of time.<br />
We do not desire to criticise his position either<br />
as a writer of books or as a writer of plays,<br />
this has been done by abler hands, and the<br />
title that has been offered and accepted is the<br />
best criticism ; but if there is a point which is<br />
especially evident in all his work it is his<br />
sincerity, and sincerity is the nearest answer<br />
to that great unanswered question ‘‘ What is<br />
Truth?” The record of his books and of his<br />
plays is a long and honourable one.<br />
<br />
In this connection we should be glad to<br />
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ask one question : Did he write that delight-<br />
fully amusing article “ The Battle of Rupert<br />
Square” ? and, if so, where is it possible to<br />
obtain a copy? Perhaps Sir James will<br />
himself reply.<br />
<br />
Tue Eruics oF ADVERTISING.<br />
<br />
WE print on another page of this issue, on the<br />
instructions of the Committee of Management,<br />
an article that appeared in the March, 1911,<br />
issue of The Author, entitled ‘On the Ethics<br />
of Advertising.”<br />
<br />
The attention of members is again drawn to<br />
the issues as, from information recently laid<br />
before the Society, it seems that there has been<br />
no abatement of the annoyance referred to,<br />
namely, that publishers, uncontrolled in their<br />
contracts as to the manner of reproduction<br />
have reproduced these cheap editions of novels,<br />
not only with advertisements at the beginning<br />
and at the end, but opposite the final pages<br />
of the literary matter.<br />
<br />
The question really resolves itself into one of<br />
contract, and we should like to repeat the<br />
advice that has been given to so many mem-<br />
bers of the Society with regard to cheap<br />
editions. First, that no author should allow<br />
the publisher to produce his novel in a cheap<br />
edition unless he is a recognised reproducer of<br />
cheap editions; the reason being that pub-<br />
lishers who are not accustomed to reproduction<br />
in this form cannot give the same price that<br />
those publishers can give who make cheap<br />
editions part of their regular business.<br />
Secondly, if the publisher is given the right of<br />
reproduction in cheap form, then he should not<br />
be allowed to use that right, without the<br />
sanction of the author, within three years from<br />
the date of publication of the original, and if<br />
he has not exercised his option within four<br />
years from the date of publication of the<br />
original, then the right should return to the<br />
author, who should have the right of placing<br />
the cheap edition elsewhere. This statement<br />
is made, of course, on the understanding that<br />
the author desires and is willing that the book<br />
should be produced at all in a cheap edition.<br />
It pays some authors much better never to<br />
have their books produced in this form at all.<br />
<br />
Then, if the publisher exercises his option,<br />
he should be bound as to the price at which,<br />
and the form in which, the cheap edition is to<br />
be put on the market. These points are all of<br />
vital importance, because the 6d. paper edition<br />
is usually read and thrown away, but the 7d.<br />
cloth-bound edition is usually placed on the<br />
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shelves and read again, or lent to other readers.<br />
It will be seen, therefore, that it is more satis-<br />
factory for the author to have the book in the<br />
6d. paper edition, which is destroyed when<br />
read, than it is to have it in a cloth-bound<br />
edition with the probability of the work<br />
being passed from one reader to another.<br />
<br />
Now we come to the important point con-<br />
tained in ‘‘ the Ethics of Advertising.”” When<br />
the form of the cheap edition is settled by a<br />
clause in the agreement, it must at the same<br />
time be settled whether the publisher is to be<br />
allowed to advertise in the cheap edition, and<br />
whether he is to be allowed to let his adver-<br />
tisements run opposite the literary matter.<br />
<br />
Those who desire to uphold the dignity of<br />
literature will prefer no doubt that no adver-<br />
tisements should appear ; those, however, who<br />
take the financial standpoint might allow<br />
advertisements to appear ; but while the former<br />
might have to forego some of his royalties,<br />
the latter would see that his royalties were<br />
increased, as the cost of production is decreased<br />
through the insertion of advertisements.<br />
<br />
The practical issue, therefore, of the whole<br />
discussion is that the only method by which<br />
the author may protect himself is by the neces-<br />
sary clauses being inserted in his agreements.<br />
Kither the publisher must be forbidden to<br />
advertise, or he must be allowed to; but<br />
whether it is the one or the other, the point<br />
must be settled in the agreement, and the<br />
royalties must be fixed accordingly.<br />
<br />
Dramatic Prracy In THE U.S.A.<br />
<br />
Mr. Water Jorpan, the dramatic agent<br />
of the Society in New York, has forwarded a<br />
cutting from the New York Review, containing<br />
details of the conviction of Mr. Byers.<br />
<br />
His conviction was the result of a crusade of<br />
the International Association of Theatrical<br />
Reproducing Managers. Byers pirated under<br />
the name of the Chicago Manuscript Company,<br />
and kept a force of stenographers for copying<br />
MSS. of plays, which he supplied to all those<br />
who sought them. Practically any New York<br />
“hit” could be bought for $5. Byers in<br />
his catalogue quoted for most New York<br />
“hits” at that figure, but cautioned his<br />
purchasers that there might be occasions<br />
when it would be wiser to change the title of<br />
the play.<br />
<br />
The conviction of Byers, it is hoped, will<br />
practically stop any future piracy of a similar<br />
kind. The Society of Authors had one or<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
two cases of a similar kind in England, but<br />
although this form of piracy did exist, it was<br />
not of such a universal character as in Chicago,<br />
<br />
THE CONGRESS OF THE Hacur.<br />
<br />
THE International Literary and Artistic<br />
Association will this year hold its 33rd Congress<br />
at the Hague from the 16th to the 19th of<br />
July. Further information can be obtained<br />
from M. A. Taillefer, 215 bis, Boulevard Saint-<br />
Germain, Paris. Tickets for the Congress<br />
cost members of the Association twenty<br />
frances, members of their families accompanying<br />
them ten franes, and those who are not<br />
members of the Association forty franes.<br />
The meetings will take place at the Hotel<br />
d’Orange, Scheveningen. The following sub-<br />
jects are included in the programme. Annual<br />
report on literary and_ artistic copyright.<br />
An examination of the reservations made by<br />
various States in their adhesion to the Con-<br />
vention of Berne, revised at Berlin. Conditions<br />
of reproduction of objects of art exhibited in<br />
museums and exhibitions. The author’s in-<br />
alienable right. Protection of national monu-<br />
ments. After the conclusion of the Congress<br />
of the Hague the Association proposes to hold<br />
one or two meetings at Ghent, respecting which<br />
notice will be given.<br />
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ANY CRAFTSMAN.<br />
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(From the Atheneum.)<br />
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AM ground down too hard by poverty :<br />
I This that I do I would’ do well; and<br />
take<br />
Time to the task; this that I make would<br />
make<br />
Not all unworthy, lest the dead men see—<br />
Those great forerunners who have left to me<br />
Their high tradition. I would keep awake<br />
My honour—for my own and all men’s sake,<br />
And let the work before the wages be.<br />
<br />
“So be it then,” doth this hard age reply,<br />
“You know the cost! ” Ah, yea, the<br />
craftsman knows :<br />
Some things well done—but poverty thereby ;<br />
One hour of joy—and many an hour of woes<br />
When he can scarce draw solace from the sky,<br />
And seeth sorrow even in the rose.<br />
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FREDERICK NIVEN.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
ALFRED AUSTIN.<br />
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—<br />
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O* June 2 the Poet Laureate died at the<br />
<br />
age of seventy-eight. The Society<br />
<br />
must regret the loss of one who, since<br />
1889, supported its aims and objects with<br />
practical sympathy.<br />
<br />
He was on the Council of the Society, but<br />
resigned from that body on his appointment<br />
as Poet Laureate. What his reason may have<br />
been it is now impossible to know. It may be<br />
he considered that it would be contrary to<br />
precedent for the Laureate to hold any position<br />
on the Council but that of President. The<br />
presidency, as all members know, after the<br />
death of Lord Tennyson, had been conferred<br />
on Mr. George Meredith. Accordingly, with<br />
regret, the committee accepted his resignation,<br />
but he still continued as a private member his<br />
support of the Society’s aims up to the day of<br />
his death.<br />
<br />
He published many volumes both of verse<br />
and prose; his most forcible method of<br />
expression coming from his keen love of the<br />
beauties of the country and country life.<br />
<br />
He was a man of warm affection for the<br />
fellow-members of his profession, as those will<br />
remember who have heard him speak among<br />
and to his brother authors.<br />
<br />
He felt very keenly—indeed, it may be said<br />
he was over-sensitive—the criticisms that were<br />
made concerning his poetry and his appoint-<br />
ment; but as he had been a critic himself, he<br />
could hardly have expected to escape unscathed.<br />
<br />
It is sad to see the goodly number of those<br />
who made their names in the Victorian era<br />
grow less and less, and it is sad to see the early<br />
members of the Society, who gave it their<br />
support in the days of storm and stress, grow<br />
fewer and fewer.<br />
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LORD AVEBURY.<br />
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<br />
<br />
E mourn in Lord Avebury one of the<br />
oldest members of the Society of<br />
Authors, for he had been a member of<br />
<br />
our body nearly since its foundation. He was<br />
among our most loyal supporters, serving as<br />
chairman of the Nobel Committee, and sitting<br />
on the council for some twenty years. Lord<br />
Avebury’s death, in his seventy-ninth year,<br />
was not altogether unexpected ; it occurred,<br />
as a sequel to a severe attack of influenza, on<br />
May 28, just as the June issue of The Author<br />
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was in the press—hence the belated character<br />
of this notice.<br />
<br />
Lord Avebury was born in 1834, and went<br />
straight from Eton into his father’s bank, but<br />
although he mastered all the details of the<br />
banking business, and became indeed . an<br />
authority in financial circles, he found time to<br />
develop both his great proclivities for natural<br />
history and his strong sense of the duty that<br />
lies upon prominent citizens to discharge public<br />
services. It is mainly to his scientific work, of<br />
course, that we owed his co-operation at the<br />
Society of Authors, for as an author he is<br />
chiefly known by his entomological researches.<br />
His observations, in particular, upon bees and<br />
ants were recognised as veritable contributions<br />
to our knowledge, and it was more especially<br />
for these that he was elected a Fellow of the<br />
Royal Society. He was a really great entomo-<br />
logist, but his scientific versatility and erudi-<br />
tion were also displayed by his writings on<br />
ethnological and _ geological subjects. His<br />
earliest work, ‘‘ Prehistoric Times,’ must have<br />
proved the introduction to systematised<br />
archeology for many readers in the ’thirties and<br />
"forties, while the books entitled respectively<br />
“The Scenery of England ” and ‘« The Scenery<br />
of Switzerland ’’ were founded on a curiously<br />
intimate knowledge of geological rules and<br />
phenomena. Outside a purely — scientific<br />
audience Lord Avebury gained the appreciation<br />
of a large public by his books ‘‘ The Pleasures<br />
of Life,” ‘“ The Use of Life,” ‘‘ The Beauties.<br />
of Nature,” and a little volume called ‘‘ The<br />
Hundred Best Books”; all these works<br />
received the reward of an enormous circulation,<br />
and promoted a public appreciation of their<br />
subjects which was both gratifying and<br />
lucrative for the author. Lord Avebury was<br />
President of the British Association in 1881.<br />
<br />
As a man of affairs Lord Avebury occupied<br />
throughout a long life a conspicuous position.<br />
He succeeded to the Lubbock baronetcy when<br />
about thirty years of age, and shortly after-<br />
wards entered Parliament as Liberal member<br />
for Maidstone; but in 1880 he became mem-<br />
ber for the University of London, whose Vice-<br />
Chancellor he had been previously, and retained<br />
the seat for twenty years, being made a peer<br />
in 1900. :<br />
<br />
In Parliament he was a recognised authority<br />
upon. all educational questions, while he was<br />
responsible for two Acts, that under which<br />
statutory bank holidays were appointed, and<br />
that regulating hours in shops, which have<br />
incaleulably increased the happiness of com-<br />
mercial and industrial workers. As a banker<br />
he was secretary of the London Bankers’<br />
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Association for a quarter of a century, Presi-<br />
dent of the Association of Bankers, and the<br />
first President of the Institute of Bankers,<br />
while he was also at different times President<br />
of the London Chamber of Commerce and the<br />
London County Couneil.<br />
<br />
This is a brief note upon a very full and<br />
important career, but already many biographies<br />
have made the life of Sir John Lubbock (to give<br />
him the familiar style) well known to our<br />
readers. The Society have lost in him an<br />
influential friend, and this is what we wish<br />
regretfully to record.<br />
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UNITED STATES NOTES.<br />
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<br />
HERE has been a good deal of groaning<br />
recently over the growth of the “ 50-<br />
cent reprint” in this country—groan-<br />
<br />
ing which, of course, finds an echo in Great<br />
Britain, where a similar problem has to be<br />
faced. The full case against the reprint was<br />
eloquently stated, at the recent annual con-<br />
vention of the American Booksellers’ Associa-<br />
tion in New York, by Mr. Christopher Grauer,<br />
of Buffalo, one of the executive committee of<br />
the Association. Mr Grauer naturally spoke<br />
from the bookseller’s point of view—which is<br />
only one of four, since there are also to be<br />
considered the author, the reading public, and<br />
the publisher. It would searcely be in place,<br />
and it certainly would require more space than<br />
I have at my disposal, if I were to attempt to<br />
go fully into the question here. But I may<br />
mention that what Mr. Grauer thought<br />
desirable, was that a time-limit of three years<br />
from original publication should be established,<br />
within which no cheap re-issue of a book should<br />
be allowed, while the 25-cent reprint was to be<br />
fought tooth and nail. To those who are<br />
accustomed, as you are in Britain, to the 1s.,<br />
7d., and 6d. editions, the latter statement may<br />
sound strange; but in the States the regular<br />
25-cent line of novels has yet to be established,<br />
though the 50-cent books occupy a more<br />
important place every year.<br />
<br />
Optimists deny that the reprint has really a<br />
bad effect on the new book, and claim that,<br />
with certain writers at least, the sale of the<br />
50-cent work actually stimulates the demand<br />
for new works when they appear. Which<br />
argument, alas! does not comfort those<br />
authors who have not yet succeeded in getting<br />
into a cheap edition, however it may satisfy<br />
the writer of even one “ best-seller,”<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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Since last I wrote, by the way, the full list<br />
of best-sellers for last year has appeared, com-<br />
piled from the lists in the Publishers? W eekly.<br />
From this the strong position of native fiction-<br />
writers in the States is evident, the top six<br />
places being occupied by “The Harvester ”<br />
(Stratten-Porter): “ The Street Called Straight ”<br />
(King); “ Their Yesterdays” and “ The Win-<br />
ning of Barbara Worth ” (Wright); ‘ The<br />
Melting of Molly ” (Daviess) and ** A Hoosier<br />
Chronicle ” (Nicholson). In non-fiction, how-<br />
ever, foreign competition is severely felt, for<br />
the first six are ‘‘ The Promised Land ” (Autin),<br />
“The Montessori Method ” (Montessori),<br />
“South America” (Bryce), “A New Con-<br />
science and an Ancient Evil ” (Addams),<br />
“ Three Plays ” (Brieux), and “ Your United<br />
States ” (Bennett).<br />
<br />
Coming now to the works of to-day, we find<br />
the usual plethora of novels, from which it is<br />
very difficult to make a selection. Here,<br />
however, are some of the leaders: the late<br />
Vaughan Kester’s “John o’ Jamestown ” ;<br />
Reginald Wright Kauffman’s “ Running<br />
Sands’; Upton Sinelair’s “ Sylvia’; Ellen<br />
Glasgow’s “ Virginia ” ; Thomas Nelson Page’s<br />
“The Land of the Spirit’; Willa Sibert<br />
Cather’s ‘‘O Pioneers ! *”; Randall Parish’s<br />
‘ The Air Pilot ” ; Eleanor Kelly’s “ Toya the<br />
Unlike’; P. Vv. Mighels’s ‘‘ Hearts of Grace ” ;<br />
John Luther Long’s “ War”; Louis Tracy’s<br />
“One Wonderful Night’; Owen Johnson’s<br />
* The Sixty-First Second ” ; Cyrus Townsend<br />
Brady’s ‘“‘ The Fetters of Freedom”; Justus<br />
Miles Forman’s “ The Opening Door ”’ ; Irving<br />
Bacheller’s ‘‘ The Turning of Grigsby ” ; Zane<br />
Grey’s “The Desert Girl *”; Winston Chur-<br />
chill’s “‘ The Inside of the Cup”; Joseph C.<br />
Lincoln’s “‘ Mr. Pratt’s Patients’; Nathaniel<br />
Fowler’s “The Knockers’ Club ” ; John A.<br />
Moroso’s ‘‘ The Quarry ”; Elizabeth Dejeans’s<br />
“The House of Thane ”’ ; J. R. Scott’s “‘ The<br />
Unforgiving Offender ”; Will Levington Com-<br />
fort’s ‘“‘ The Road of Living Men ’”’; George<br />
Randolph Chester’s “ Wallingford in his<br />
Prime”; Henry Russell Miller’s “ The Ambi-<br />
tion of Mark Truitt”; Harold Macgrath’s<br />
“ Parrot & Co.”; Charles Sherman's @ The<br />
Upper Crust ” ; Grace Lutz’s “ Lo Michael ! ” ;<br />
Nina Wilcox Putnam’s “ The Impossible Boy ”<br />
and E. D. Biggers’ “‘ Seven Keys to Baldpate.”<br />
<br />
In biography, “‘ Mark Twain and the Happy<br />
Island ’’—which is Bermuda—may be put first,<br />
the author being Elizabeth Wallace. “ La<br />
Follette’s Autobiography ” is by the well-<br />
known Senator. George L. Clark’s “ Silas<br />
Dean ” deals with a Connecticut leader in the<br />
Revolution. ‘‘ The Life and Letters of Genera]<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
George G. Meade ” is edited by the General’s<br />
son, who bears the same name. * Pickett and<br />
His Men” is history rather than biography,<br />
and comes out appropriately in the fiftieth<br />
anniversary year of the battle of Gettysburg.<br />
The author is Mrs. La Salle Pickett, widow of<br />
the General. Another Gettysburg book is by<br />
Elsie Singmaster, and is entitled “* Gettysburg :<br />
Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath.”<br />
“A Naval History of the American Revolu-<br />
tion,” by G. W. Allen, goes further back, while<br />
the Rev. H. W. Jones’ ‘“‘ Battle of Santiago 2<br />
brings us almost to modern days: The<br />
Philippine Problem,’ one of the results of<br />
Santiago, is dealt with by F. C. Chamberlain.<br />
<br />
There are a fairly large number of books<br />
which may be classed as sociological :<br />
“ Crowds,”’ by Gerald Stanley Lee; “ Starving<br />
America,’” by A. W. McCann; ‘‘ The Immi-<br />
grant Invasion,” by Julian Warne; “ Syndica-<br />
lism, Industrial Unionism, and Socialism,” by<br />
John Spargo; “ American Syndicalism,” by<br />
J. G. Brooks; “A Short History of the<br />
American Negro,” by B. G. Brawley ; and<br />
‘Woman's Share in Social Culture,” by Anna<br />
Garlin Spencer. Professor Max Farrand writes<br />
of “The Framing of the Constitution of the<br />
United States,” and Professor C. A. Beard of<br />
“An Economic Interpretation ”’ of that Con-<br />
stitution. Another Professor, Ernest Freund,<br />
treats of “The Police Power” in America.<br />
“<The Electoral College,” by J. Walker Hol-<br />
combe, may also be mentioned here.<br />
<br />
Whether James G. Haneker’s “ The Pathos<br />
of Distance ” should be counted with philosophy<br />
or with the essays is doubtful. Under the<br />
latter heading comes “‘ The American Spirit,”<br />
by O. S. Strauss, and it may perhaps be<br />
stretched to include Dr. Lyman Abbott’s<br />
“‘ Letters to Unknown Friends,”’ most of them<br />
reprinted from the Outlook. But certainly the<br />
most brilliant example of the essay is Professor<br />
George Santayana’s “ Winds of Doctrine,” a<br />
work which cannot but fascinate many who<br />
wholly disapprove of the views expressed.<br />
<br />
George Palmer Putnam, in his ‘‘ Southland<br />
of North America,” writes of the Central<br />
American States. In ‘Alaska: an Empire<br />
in the Making,” J. J. Underwood goes to the<br />
Far North-west, and ‘ Hawaii, Past and<br />
Present ” is described by an American born<br />
and educated in that part of the world. “ Zone<br />
Policeman 88,” by H. A. Frank, relates to the<br />
Panama Canal. ‘Our Neighbours the<br />
Japanese,” is by J. K. Goodrich ; and Adelaide<br />
Mack has added another to the appreciations<br />
of ‘‘ Magnetic Paris.”<br />
<br />
Three Nature books are :<br />
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Wild Life,” by W. T. Hornaday ; ‘* In Beaver<br />
World,” by Enos A. Mills ; and ‘‘ Seeing Nature<br />
First,” by C. M. Weed. ‘<br />
<br />
The poets seem to be going through a period<br />
of inactivity, but Max Eastman has not only<br />
produced “ A Child of the Amazons, and Other<br />
Poems,” but also a work on “ The Enjoyment<br />
of Poetry.”<br />
<br />
The obituary list is happily not very large<br />
since last these notes appeared. At the end of<br />
March, Joseph Newton Hallock, editor of<br />
Christian Work and author of many religious<br />
books, died at Brooklyn. On April 27, Dr.<br />
Andrew Sloan Draper, State Commissioner of<br />
Education, ex-President of Illinois University,<br />
and author of ‘“‘ American Education,’ etc.,<br />
succumbed to heart disease. On May 11,<br />
Francis Fisher Browne, editor of The Dial, died<br />
in a Californian sanatorium, after a long<br />
illness, aged seventy. His best-known work,<br />
outside The Dial, was his “ Everyday Life of<br />
Abraham Lincoln.”’ He wrote verse himself,<br />
and made also several collections from English<br />
and American poets. In the notice of his<br />
death in The Dial itself it is pointed out that he<br />
conceived, projected, and for nearly a third of<br />
a century conducted that journal. John<br />
Sergeant Wise, who was a barrister as well as a<br />
writer, and had formerly been a soldier, died<br />
on May 12. Among his books were ‘‘ Recol-<br />
lections of Thirteen Presidents.” In mid-May<br />
the deaths occurred of John Hays Gardiner,<br />
ex-Professor at Harvard, and author of ‘‘ The<br />
Bible as English Literature,” “ Forms of Prose<br />
Literature,” etc.; and of William Henry<br />
Larrabee, a writer on popular science and at<br />
one time editor of The Methodist.<br />
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Purp WALSH.<br />
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ON THE ETHICS OF ADVERTISING.<br />
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<br />
NE of the members of the committee of<br />
<br />
() the Society proposing the health of the<br />
<br />
publishers at a dinner, declared that it<br />
<br />
gave him great satisfaction to do so, as<br />
<br />
publishers were the most modest of mankind,<br />
<br />
for, he always understood they never advertised<br />
—at least authors told him so.<br />
<br />
There are cases, however, in which<br />
publishers do advertise, but in the wrong<br />
quarters, and in an objectionable manner.<br />
<br />
Complaints have come to the Society that<br />
publishers advertise by inserting their own<br />
catalogues of books at the end of 6s. novels<br />
or at the end of other books. This to some<br />
<br />
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authors has been exceedingly annoying, but<br />
the form of agreement between the author and<br />
the publisher has precluded the former from<br />
taking any action. Indeed, in a case of this<br />
kind, it may be a little pedantic to object.<br />
When, however, the publisher not only adver-<br />
tises his own wares at the end of the book, but<br />
canvasses for advertisements from soap and<br />
pill manufacturers, as often happens in the case<br />
<br />
of cheap editions, then there is nothing<br />
pedantic in the author’s objections. As the<br />
<br />
issue of a cheap edition is seldom less than<br />
20,000 copies, there is no doubt that the<br />
publisher takes this course in order to keep<br />
down the cost of production and to enable<br />
him to put some extra profits into his own<br />
pockets.<br />
<br />
The question of advertisements of the<br />
publisher’s own books may for the time be<br />
set aside, for though, in ‘the eyes of some<br />
authors, they may spoil the appearance of the<br />
issue, whether cheap or expensive, they are,<br />
at any rate, advertisements of books. But<br />
to other advertisements two objections might<br />
be raised—first, the ideal, secondly, the<br />
practical.<br />
<br />
From the author’s point of view it might<br />
be rightly argued, first, that the advertise-<br />
ments of pills, soaps, toilet powders, ete.,<br />
might damage and perhaps destroy the<br />
dignity of the work that is being put on the<br />
market ; secondly—the practical point—that<br />
if it is the intention of the publisher to obtain<br />
a large number of advertisements to fill up<br />
the beginning and the end of the book, he<br />
will thereby obtain considerable sums of<br />
money, and that the author should be entitled,<br />
therefore, to a larger payment on the cheap<br />
issue as a fair reward for his larger popularity.<br />
<br />
There is, however, a more disastrous method<br />
of advertising which has been adopted by some<br />
publishers in producing cheap editions, namely,<br />
the introduction of advertisements on pages<br />
facing the literary matter of the book. The<br />
same arguments put forward against the<br />
ordinary advertisements would hold good here<br />
also, but with trebly increased force ; first,<br />
that this method of advertising destroys<br />
entirely the dignity of the production; and<br />
secondly—the practical—that as a larger fee<br />
can be obtained for advertisements facing<br />
matter than for ordinary advertisements at the<br />
end of the book, therefore a still larger pay-<br />
ment should be made to the author.<br />
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Whatever view is taken, the ideal or the<br />
practical, it seems quite clear that, under the<br />
clause which is not uncommon in publishers’<br />
agreements affecting the publishers’ control<br />
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of the style and manner of the production of<br />
the work, the author would have little power<br />
to object. Publishers are, of course, trades-<br />
men, and look upon the production of books<br />
as any tradesman would look upon the produe-<br />
tion and sale of other articles of commerce,<br />
It is natural that they should look in the first<br />
instance to the profits, and, in consequence, it<br />
is not surprising that these methods of adver-<br />
tisement should be employed. Members of the<br />
Society of Authors must be cautioned in the<br />
first place not to let the right of reproduction<br />
in cheap form lie with the publisher who<br />
produces the 6s. book. There should always<br />
be a separate contract for the right of repro-<br />
duction in cheap form, as it is often important<br />
for financial reasons that the same publisher<br />
should not have the control of both.<br />
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Secondly, in a Separate contract for the<br />
publication of a book in cheap form, the<br />
author should take particular care to insert a<br />
clause, if he desires to maintain the point of<br />
view of the dignity of literature, that adver-<br />
tisements are not to be inserted, save with his<br />
sanction, and in no circumstances facing the<br />
literary matter. If he desires to deal with the<br />
practical side, he should see that he obtains a<br />
share of the profit which, owing to the popu-<br />
larity of his work, may be derived from the<br />
advertisements. The author should be<br />
especially careful, if he is unable to keep the<br />
reproduction in expensive and cheap form<br />
separate, that these clauses should be included<br />
in the one agreement which deals with both<br />
issues.<br />
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THE LETTERS OF AN ORDINARY<br />
AUTHOR.<br />
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Collected and edited by Joun Hasterrte.<br />
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To T. Vibert, Esq.<br />
Martins CorraGeE,<br />
SANTOLLER, Bucks.<br />
<br />
Dear Tommy,—As one who has passed<br />
through that phase of the craft which begins<br />
with hope, continues in suspense, and ends with<br />
an unfavourable decision—to be continued in<br />
your next (venture)—you shall be the first to<br />
hear that some misguided firm has at last<br />
agreed to take my first full-length work, ‘“‘ The<br />
Topmost Bough.” It is true! I have signed<br />
an agreement with Messrs. Aldine and Elzevir,<br />
and the joy of the 6d. revenue stamp still<br />
lingers with me.<br />
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Now that I have signed, I wish I had delayed,<br />
and asked you to look through the document<br />
for me. I have some knowledge of these<br />
things, a share of the sense called common,<br />
and a full sense of my own value—but, no<br />
novice is fitted to cope unassisted, with the<br />
pure man of business. I hate to bore you<br />
with questions of “‘ shop,” but T must unburden<br />
myself of a few details, and hope you will let<br />
me know if I have “ let myself in”!<br />
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I think it was Carlyle who said something<br />
about cash being an insufficient nexus between<br />
man and man; it seems to me that it is nota<br />
bad one between author and publisher. To<br />
the cash then!<br />
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The royalty they offer me begins with<br />
10 per cent. It does not seem very big, but,<br />
of course, it is on the nominal price of the<br />
novel, and works out at about 17 per cent.<br />
on the price the publisher obtains per copy.<br />
I don’t grumble at that. A first novel is a<br />
speculation, and a greedy author is as bad as<br />
a greedy publisher—worse, for he is supposed<br />
to have some ideals. After 2,000 copies have<br />
been sold, I am to get 15 per cent. I can hear<br />
you saying that the 15 per cent. side of the<br />
affair need not trouble me. I have the same<br />
feeling, but hope buoys me up. I don’t think<br />
I have done wrong in agreeing to these terms<br />
now. Later on, if I get the ear of the public,<br />
I shall hustle for the bigger loaves and fishes.<br />
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Now comes a clause which I swallowed with<br />
reluctance. The MS. has been out so often<br />
that I dare not hold back. This clause seems<br />
to give my_ publishers the marketing of<br />
American rights. Didn’t you tell me once<br />
that American book rights can be negotiated on<br />
one’s own; that it may often pay one better<br />
to market the U.S.A. book rights separately ?<br />
My common sense tells me that you are right.<br />
At the same time, there are occasions when a<br />
publisher can place your novel on the other<br />
side of the ocean more easily than you, the<br />
author, can. A first novel, I imagine, is one<br />
of these cases.<br />
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Another clause commits to my publishers<br />
the Colonial rights. I feel more comfortable<br />
about this. I don’t think the beginner can<br />
do much alone in the Colonies. Publishers<br />
don’t seem to compete very eagerly for the<br />
mere colonial rights of a first novel, do<br />
they ?<br />
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I hesitate rather before telling you that I<br />
have signed away serial rights. I know<br />
you will tell me that serial rights are worth<br />
money, and should never be thrown in for a<br />
50 per cent. consideration. I do know that<br />
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for half the prices agents can procure. But<br />
my difficulty will explain much to you. it 1<br />
stand out for all my rights, the publishers will<br />
probably return my MS. I cannot afford to<br />
lose a chance of getting into the novel market.<br />
Let this excuse soften your inflexible soul—<br />
also the fact that ‘“‘ The Topmost Bough”? is<br />
not quite adapted to the serial market. All<br />
books cannot be serialised, though a great<br />
many tales that are now published, in the first<br />
instance, as books, could have been sold profit-<br />
ably to the editors of periodical fiction. I<br />
assure you that I would have tried my novel<br />
with them if I had thought it publishable in<br />
instalments.<br />
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There was one clause which I could not<br />
swallow. The inference I drew from it was<br />
that the average author must be a man with<br />
a big bank account, and a more considerable<br />
store of patience. It suggested that accounts<br />
should be made up half-yearly ; that accounts<br />
should be furnished to me three months later ;<br />
and that payment of the accounts should be<br />
made—well, three months later again! I<br />
have never been able to understand why<br />
accounts should be left to mature in the<br />
publisher’s hands, as if they were pints of<br />
wine and the publisher a bottler. It seems<br />
to me that it would be just as easy for the<br />
accounts to be forwarded when made up.<br />
What do you think ?<br />
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At any rate I had no mind to wait six months<br />
before receiving the shekels. I pointed out,<br />
with some timidity, that I was not the first<br />
cousin of a millionaire. I waited in fear and<br />
trembling for the reply. Thank Heaven!<br />
it was quite amiable. I was not able<br />
to get what I wanted, but managed to<br />
split the difference. My accounts are to be<br />
presented—happy word—within a month of<br />
making up, and paid within another month.<br />
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By the way, I have received a letter from a<br />
dear old uncle, congratulating me, and sug-<br />
gesting that I must interview the reviewers<br />
at once. He enclosed a cheque for £20, and<br />
hoped that I would drive a hard bargain with<br />
them! Dear old soul, how amusing is the<br />
ignorance of the outsider. He believes, as<br />
do others, I hear, that you pay the reviewers<br />
to praise your novels ! Here’s a problem like<br />
that set in the ladies’ papers: “‘ Ought I to<br />
keep the cheque ? ’’ I have solved the problem,<br />
I may say !<br />
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Like a good soul, do let me hear what you<br />
think of the agreement. I have taken up all<br />
available space with it ; only leaving room for<br />
the hope that Mrs. Tommy is in her usual<br />
excellent health, and that the young Tommy<br />
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is becoming aware of your temperamental<br />
aversion from sudden howls !<br />
I remain,<br />
Ever yours,<br />
RoBert WYVERN.<br />
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VI.<br />
To T. Vibert, Esq.<br />
Marins Corrace,<br />
SANTOLLER, Bucks.<br />
<br />
Dear Tommy,—I was glad to hear from you.<br />
Your letter was salutary. It has quite<br />
mastered my new born belief that I have in<br />
me the making of a business man.<br />
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Peccavi! I was an ass to give up my serial<br />
and American rights in ‘ The Topmost<br />
Bough ” for a mess of 50 per cent. pottage.<br />
You say that publishers will try a novel with<br />
three or four U.S.A. publishers, and failing<br />
these, will either drop the business, or try to<br />
sell a few hundred sets of sheets, for which<br />
the author will receive a few paltry pounds.<br />
After reflection, I agree to that asa general<br />
principle. But there are a few righteous men<br />
even in the publishing trade—your publisher,<br />
for instance, and Messrs. ,» and also<br />
Messrs. Some day I hope to settle<br />
myself on the lap of these, and then all will<br />
be well. Yet I admit my present fault.<br />
For the future “I will be good.” I shall set<br />
out again, armed with your useful advice.<br />
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Again to work. A new novel calls me.<br />
What about employing a new agent ? What<br />
are your views on agents anyway ?<br />
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Yours affectionately,<br />
Ropert WyYvERN.<br />
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GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO.<br />
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t is very difficult to deal with d’Annunzio<br />
as one would with an ordinary writer, for<br />
his works are not meant for the masses,<br />
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and would be gall to the conventional-minded<br />
mediocrity, and poison to the spiritually<br />
inclined. To be really in sympathy with his<br />
views it is necessary to be by hature a d’Annun-<br />
zian, just as to fully appreciate Nietzsche one<br />
must be born a Nietzschian. There is an<br />
innate similarity between these writers, for the<br />
latter said: “ L’homme doit étre élevé pour la<br />
guerre, et la femme pour le délassement du<br />
guerrier (and) la vie est une source de joie,”<br />
and the former insists upon it to such an extent<br />
that, from his earliest works, he asserted that<br />
when boredom had followed joy and pleasure,<br />
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these were to be recaptured at all costs, even if<br />
they came not naturally, but through artificial<br />
stimulus.<br />
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In Italy d’Annunzio created a style of his<br />
own, known as d’Annunziano, which has<br />
numberless followers amongst the writers of<br />
the younger generation, who call themselves<br />
d’Annunziani in homage to their master ;<br />
nevertheless, a great hostile current rose u<br />
against him. Apparently, it was impossible to<br />
divide the man from his works, and, in con-<br />
demning the former, many have banned the<br />
latter; and thus, the greatest living Italian<br />
writer, having many grievances against his<br />
countrymen, retired to France, a voluntary<br />
exile. After having mortally wounded his<br />
feelings by selling up his home and his treasured<br />
mementos, the Italians offered to get up a<br />
subscription to purchase another house for<br />
him, as a gift and in homage to his genius ;<br />
but he would accept no favour from the people<br />
who had caused him so much anguish, and he<br />
recently declared that he preferred to make his<br />
home himself, when and where he chose.<br />
Though he may have left Italy, and written his<br />
last work, ‘‘ St. Sebastian,” in French, still, his<br />
writings are the essence of Italianism ; he is<br />
the true exponent of the imaginative and the<br />
artistic which is inborn in the Italian nature.<br />
There has been some doubt as to his age, but<br />
he himself said : “‘ I was born in 1864 on board<br />
the brigantine Irene in the waters of the<br />
Adriatic. In Pescara they considered me an<br />
infant prodigy, so strange was my precocity.”<br />
At the age of fifteen he was a full-fledged poet,<br />
and had written four poems, which are charac.<br />
teristic of him: “ Gentle Hour,” “ Joyous<br />
Hour,” ‘‘ Sombre Hour,” ‘Satanic Hour.”<br />
In the first, his mind is perfectly serene, and<br />
he dreams tranquil, peaceful dreams. In the<br />
second, he is gay, he revels in the sky, the sea,<br />
the sunshine, in all that is beautiful and lovable<br />
in nature. In the third, a gloom has come<br />
over his spirit; he has tasted deception—<br />
weariness and boredom follow. When he tries<br />
to analyse the multitudes, he finds them<br />
strange; their ways are not his Ways, and<br />
his heart grows heavy within him. But his<br />
despondency is temporary; joy must be<br />
reached, merriment must return: He longs<br />
for the drunkardness which prostrates the soul<br />
and senses, the inane noise and laughter of<br />
orgies, in which weird loves, kisses, and spark-<br />
ling wine chase away all consciousness of pain.<br />
He longs for madness, and for Satan’s great big<br />
wings of flame, which can carry him away from<br />
humanity, its meanness, its miseries, its same-<br />
ness. And, in the ‘ Satanic Hour,” he calls<br />
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to Satan: ‘‘ Come near me ; inspire me, I am<br />
your own!”<br />
<br />
“The flesh and the devil have always been<br />
coupled, so there is nothing incongruous in the<br />
appeal of this errant knight of matter to the<br />
power of darkness.<br />
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D’Annunzio is now fifty; from the age of<br />
sixteen he has produced incessantly poems,<br />
novels, dramas, plays. For a quarter of a<br />
century he stood out supreme : “The Immagi-<br />
nifico,” as he was rightly called, which means,<br />
“The Creator of Images”; then his magic<br />
brain seemed to weary. His books are so<br />
numerous they defy description. In quoting<br />
them I will divide them according to their<br />
nature, and the crisis they represent in the<br />
mentality of their author.<br />
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“Prima Vere” (1879), ‘Canto Novo”<br />
(1883), ‘‘ Terra Vergine ”’ (1883), ‘“‘ Il Libro<br />
delle Vergini ” (1884).<br />
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Sensual Crisis—‘ Intermezzo di rime”<br />
(1884), “ San Pantaleone ” (1886), ‘‘ Il Piacere”’<br />
(1889), ‘‘Isotteo e la Chimera” (1890),<br />
“Elegie Romane” (1892), “ Poema Para-<br />
disiaco”’ (1893), “Il Trionfo della Morte”<br />
(1894), ‘‘ Le novelle della Pescara ”” (1902).<br />
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Moral Crisis. —‘* Giovanni Episcopo ”’ (1892),<br />
“TInnocente ” (1892) (The Advent of the Super-<br />
man), ‘ Odi Navali”’ (1893), “ Allegoria dell’<br />
Autunno ” (1895), ‘‘ Le Vergini delle Roccie ”<br />
(1896), “‘ Sogno di un mattino di primavera -<br />
(1897), ‘‘ Sogno di un tramonto di Autunno ”<br />
(1898), ‘« La Citta Morta ” (1898), ** La Gloria ”’<br />
(1899), ‘‘ La Gioconda ” (1899), “ Il Fuoco ”<br />
(1900).<br />
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Victorious Age‘ Francesca da Rimini”<br />
(1902), ‘“‘ Laudi del Ciclo, del Mare, della Terra,<br />
e degli Eroi” (1903-1904), “La Figlia di<br />
Jorio ”’ (1904), “ La Fiaccola sotto al Moggio ”<br />
(1905).<br />
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Decadence.—‘‘ Piu che VAmore’” (1907),<br />
“Ta Nave” (1908), ‘“ Fedra” (1909), then<br />
““ St. Sebastian ”’ (in French).<br />
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Of these Messrs. Heinemann have published<br />
seven translated into English: “ The Flame<br />
of Life” (“Il Fuoco’), “The Dead City ”<br />
(‘‘ La Citta Morta ”’), “‘ Francesca da Rimini,”<br />
** Gioconda,”’ ‘The Child of Pleasure’’ (“ Ul<br />
Piacere”’), ‘The Triumph of Death” (“Il<br />
Trionfo della Morte ’’), “‘ The Virgins of the<br />
Rocks” (‘‘Le Vergini delle Roccie”’), and<br />
<br />
e* L’Innocente ” (“‘ The Intruder ”’) is published<br />
in English by G. H. Richmond, of New York.<br />
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The chief characteristic of d’Annunzio’s<br />
works is his love of beauty, to which he sacri-<br />
fices every other consideration and conception<br />
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oflife. He forces himself to find beauty every-<br />
where by intellectual idealisation ; believing<br />
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that the whole world of matter is susceptible<br />
to aesthetic ennoblement. Starting from the<br />
principle that nothing holds an absolute value,<br />
and that man is the creator of values, he<br />
advises men to set themselves free, by throwing<br />
down barriers and renewing values.<br />
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One cannot judge d’Annunzio’s characters<br />
from the standpoint of ordinary, everyday<br />
beings ; his heroes and heroines live a life apart,<br />
exceptional, yet natural to themselves; they<br />
are lifelike in their own surroundings, but they<br />
could not live their lives in an ordinary<br />
atmosphere such as we are generally familiar<br />
with.<br />
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There are no mediocrities amongst them, no<br />
failures; their surrender is joyous, their lan-<br />
guage is not made up of common words, but is<br />
high-flown, poetic, magnificent, in keeping<br />
with rhythmical movements, which come<br />
natural to them, with bejewelled, expressive<br />
hands, silken garments, tresses of gold and eyes<br />
of turquoise, or raven locks and eyes of jet.<br />
D’Annunzio in portraying them has _ not<br />
studied his characters from Nature, and then<br />
overdrawn them, or exaggerated their points<br />
incongruously ; he has first conceived them in<br />
his own brain—wonder-creatures of his own,<br />
with passionate, sensitive natures—then he has<br />
given them birth and created his characters of<br />
the stuff of which maybe a super-species might<br />
be made. D’Annunzio declares that whoever<br />
robes himself with sorrow is a slave, and that<br />
pleasure is the best way of understanding<br />
Nature. He does not exalt suffering; he sees<br />
the greatest wisdom embodied in him who, in<br />
spite of all experiences, has much rejoiced. To<br />
create joy, to create with joy instead of pain,<br />
to be only conscious of the joy in life, is to him<br />
a supreme virtue. In “The Triumph of<br />
Death ” there are traces of d’Annunzio’s find-<br />
ing of Nietzsche ; one can see the great natural<br />
affinity of the two master minds, and, in truth,<br />
to realise fully either of them it is necessary to<br />
feel with them, for no mere effort of abstract<br />
reasoning can make them comprehensible or<br />
acceptable. D’Annunzio throws down the<br />
walls of reality, in which human convention<br />
reigns supreme ; he detests repression, routine,<br />
passiveness, and the monotonous greyness of<br />
the roads of least resistance. He idolises<br />
beautiful bodies, whether they are inhabited<br />
by beautiful souls or not ; he idealises life, but<br />
materialises love ; he does not attempt to free<br />
human love of passion; he does not seek<br />
spirituality, nor does he attempt to lift love to<br />
the spheres of the divine. For him Love, like<br />
Beauty, is enough unto itself.<br />
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sistibly, even though one feels its artificiality ;<br />
even though one knows instinctively that his<br />
works have been created for our pleasure, his<br />
people have been conceived out of pleasure,<br />
and will be consumed by pleasure.<br />
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Exalted, sublime, magnificent pleasure is not<br />
often met with in daily life. Those who<br />
hunger for a vision of it can find it in “I<br />
Fuoco,” “Tl Piacere,” “ L’Innocente,”’ ‘‘ Laudi<br />
del Cielo, del Mare, della Terra e degli Eroi,”’<br />
and in “Il Trionfo della Morte.”<br />
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Whoever wishes to dream a dream of loveli-<br />
ness should read d’Annunzio, and be introduced<br />
to luxurious women, consumed by fire; to<br />
serene, immovable, unfathomable women, with<br />
eyes reflecting infinity ; to shapely, beautiful,<br />
white, jewelled hands; perfectly modelled<br />
human forms ; amber, silk and gold; they<br />
will be dazzled by so much magnificence, and<br />
be intoxicated by the perfume of exotic flowers<br />
and deep-red roses.<br />
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E. S. Romero-Topesco.<br />
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SIR ALFRED LYALL.*<br />
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HIS book, Sir Mortimer Durand tells us<br />
T in his Preface, was undertaken at the<br />
request of Lady Lyall and the family.<br />
It is a worthy memorial to a very distinguished<br />
man. To give it an adequate notice would<br />
require more space than is at our disposal.<br />
We must, therefore, content ourselves with a<br />
brief indication of the manner of portrait which<br />
the biographer paints of his subject.<br />
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Alfred Comyn Lyall was born on J anuary 4,<br />
1835, and died suddenly of heart-failure on<br />
April 10, 1911, while a guest of Lord and Lady<br />
Tennyson at Farringford. In that long period<br />
he was educated at Eton and Haileybury ;<br />
went out to the Indian North-West Provinces<br />
in his twenty-first year; passed through the<br />
Mutiny, with a narrow escape from death;<br />
rose to be Home Secretary at Calcutta when he<br />
was thirty-seven, and Agent to the Governor-<br />
General in Rajputana next year; at forty-<br />
three became Indian Foreign Secretary, and at<br />
forty-seven Lieutenant-Governor of the North-<br />
West Provinces. At the end of 1887, after a<br />
serious illness, he retired from the country<br />
where he had spent thirty-two years, and<br />
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* “Lite of Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, K.C.B., G.C.LE.,<br />
D.C.L., LL.D,” by Sir Mortimer Durand. Illustrated,<br />
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Edinburgh and London: Wm. Blackwood & Sons<br />
16s. net.<br />
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could have had the Governorship of the Cape |<br />
or New Zealand, but declined both. He would |<br />
have liked the Viceroyalty of India in 1898, but<br />
Lord Elgin was appointed in his stead. In<br />
1903 he retired from public, but by no means |<br />
from active life. To his last moment he was |::)<br />
talking, writing, and working as brilliantly as |<br />
ever. Having spoken of his death, Sir Mor- |.»<br />
timer Durand says: “ His life was a full and || «<br />
varied one . . . as happy as a man’s life ever<br />
is. . . . Among the men I have known there<br />
have been few of such rare<br />
and not one who had the power of inspiring, in |<br />
those who really knew him, a deeper trust and |<br />
affection.”<br />
The last chapter of the book is devoted to |.<br />
Lyall’s literary work, “ by which:he is best |<br />
known in England, and now, perhaps, even in<br />
India.” He produced (apart from his con-<br />
tributions to the leading reviews) five books, in<br />
addition to a small volume of verse; not a<br />
large total for an author, but then he was an<br />
official up to the age of sixty-eight. ‘The<br />
conditions which limited the quantity of Lyall’s<br />
literary work ”—this is Sir Mortimer Durand’s<br />
summing-up—*‘ had an important effect upon<br />
its quality. His writings, whether in verse or<br />
prose, show throughout the hand not of a<br />
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action with literary tastes.<br />
they lack in some measure the finish, the per-<br />
fection of technique, which as a rule comes only<br />
by long and incessant practice at one craft ;<br />
certainly they are full of knowledge, and<br />
marked by the power of thought, which can be<br />
acquired only by taking a part in the affairs of<br />
the world. Whether the gain outweighs the<br />
loss, or the loss outweighs the gain, may be<br />
disputed. . . . Apart from this question, the<br />
main characteristic of Lyall’s work, both in<br />
verse and prose, is its truthfulness, its careful<br />
regard for the realities of life. . . . His literary<br />
work leaves in the mind of any careful reader a<br />
feeling not only of keen pleasure but of con-<br />
viction and confidence.”<br />
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We could quote much more, but will refrain,<br />
having (we hope) done enough to show that<br />
this biography is one which, by the sympathy<br />
between author and subject, must attract the<br />
intelligent reader, whether he be one to who<br />
the active, or one to whom the literary, side *<br />
a life like Lyall’s appeals. 0<br />
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It may be mentioned that Sir Alfred Lyall<br />
was for many years a member of the Society of<br />
Authors, and on the Society’s Council. “He<br />
took a great interest in the dispute concerning<br />
the action of the “Times” Book Club.<br />
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THE AUTHOR. 311<br />
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CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
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—<br />
AUTHOR AND AGENT.<br />
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I.<br />
<br />
sir, So long as my friend Wells is content<br />
to speak for himself about agents I am ready<br />
to listen in respectful silence, but when he<br />
begins to speak for “ all sensible authors,” I<br />
must protest. I maintain that lama sensible<br />
author. If lampoonists and satirists are to be<br />
* telieved, I have a re utation for considerable<br />
husiness acumen. Bluntly, I think this repu-<br />
tation is deserved.<br />
<br />
As one “ sensible author,” I wish to “ pro-<br />
chim clearly” that I should not dream of<br />
employing agents only “for specific jobs.”<br />
On the contrary I am absolutely convinced<br />
that every author of large and varied output<br />
ought to put the whole of his affairs into the<br />
hands of a good agent, and that every such<br />
author who fails to do so loses money by his<br />
omission, I admit that some agents are bad.<br />
Iknow that some are good. A good agent will<br />
do a specific job better than an author, partly<br />
because he knows the markets better, and<br />
partly because he is an expert in the diplomacy<br />
of bargains. But a good agent is sho very<br />
valuable in utilising opportunities as they<br />
arise—opportunitics of whose very existence<br />
the author is ignorant. I reckon that in the<br />
latter activity alone a good agent recoups an<br />
author again and again for the whole of his<br />
commission.<br />
<br />
In my experience it is precisely when agents<br />
are employed only for “‘ specific jobs” that<br />
trouble comes.<br />
<br />
Wells, my senior, once advisea—nay, com-<br />
oo to go to an agent. With my<br />
oe Ididso. He told me to put the<br />
laa of my affairs into the hands of the agent.<br />
— so. I have never regretted it. I have<br />
a had the slightest agency trouble as the<br />
je — following Wells’ advice. I am quite<br />
<br />
t if I had not followed his advice I<br />
<br />
a be very decidedly worse off than I am.<br />
ce pe to Wells is lasting. That<br />
an 0 some thirteen years ago. Experi-<br />
t led Wells to change his views.<br />
Experience has only confirmed me in my<br />
4 formerly his. He may be right; I<br />
ee be wrong. I will not dog tise. But<br />
<br />
Must not speak for ‘‘ all sensible authors.”<br />
<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
ArNoLD BENNETT.<br />
<br />
fl am obliged to the Editor for a sigh<br />
ght of<br />
A B’s letter in proof. His fault has ever<br />
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modesty, I deplore my forgotten advice.<br />
<br />
His reputation was already made in those days,<br />
his future secure. Without that “(good agent”<br />
he must still have had all his present prosperity<br />
plus ten per cent. How are we to prove these<br />
things? Shall we sit down together and<br />
discuss our translations, our serializations ?<br />
Details in public would be difficult. I must<br />
talk privately to E. A. B. in this connexion.<br />
H. G. W.]<br />
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Il.<br />
<br />
Dear Sir,—May I suggest to Mr. H. G.<br />
Wells that whereas there is only one H. G.<br />
Wells there are thousands of mere Smiths<br />
existent in the literary vale of tears who have<br />
good cause to be thankful for the intervention<br />
of Messrs. Agency, Clause & Co.<br />
<br />
As a mere Smith I was guilty of a first<br />
novel. I + a three weary years and many<br />
stamps in the effort to bring various publishers<br />
to see the worth of it as a masterpiece. Out<br />
of ten firms I received one offer to publish<br />
for £50. Fortunately, perhaps, I was not in<br />
the position to pay It, otherwise the lust for<br />
self-gratification might have proved too strong<br />
and I had fallen. Just as I came to realise<br />
what ‘hope deferred” meant, a friend<br />
introduced me to an agent. He accepted my<br />
MS. for negotiation. Within two months he<br />
forwarded me a contract from a big ‘“‘ solvent ”<br />
firm. The publishers took all risks; I<br />
retained all rights. As is usual with the bulk<br />
of first novels I received no pecuniary benefit<br />
from my work—neither did the agent! Yet<br />
he has, to my knowledge, disbursed some<br />
80s. in stamps, etc. on my behalf—without<br />
return! I will say nothing of his many kind-<br />
nesses in other ways. No doubt he hopes to<br />
recoup his outlay in the future; I sincerely<br />
hope he’ll have the i I should<br />
consider 10 per cent. wel earned by the man<br />
who placed me on the first step of a ladder<br />
which reached to the heights of an H. G. Wells<br />
reputation—and income !<br />
<br />
Sincerely yours,<br />
AMERE SMITH.<br />
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BEGINNERS’ AGREEMENTS.<br />
<br />
Dear Sir,—May I say a little more in re ly<br />
to the second letter of “ J ustice ’? in your last<br />
issue? At the risk of seeming obtrusive with<br />
my business particulars I feel that with a very<br />
little trouble to myself I may be of some real<br />
service to the numerous beginner-writers who<br />
are destined to produce, among other matter,<br />
much of the literature of to-morrow. 4<br />
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Then let me relate that I did not begin with<br />
books—I could not afford the time. I think<br />
that was a very lucky restraint. I had to<br />
live, and so I learnt to write before I thought of a<br />
book. I had already made a little reputation,<br />
when the time came for dealings with a<br />
book publisher. I published three books<br />
almost simultaneously. I got 10 per cent. for<br />
each, and advances of £5 (for a very flimsy<br />
little volume of newspaper articles), £50 (for<br />
a continuous story published at 1s. 6d. that<br />
had already had a success as a serial), and<br />
£20 (for a volume of short stories), respectively.<br />
(The short story volume only was published<br />
through an agent.) These are, I think, very<br />
fair beginner’s terms. A _ beginner should<br />
always demand a cheque on account of<br />
royalties as a guarantee of good faith, and a<br />
royalty of 10 per cent. gives the publisher a<br />
very handsome margin of profit. It is no<br />
good to the beginner to be greedy about the<br />
royalty. I mentioned 25 per cent. in my last<br />
letter as the ideal for an established writer.<br />
What a beginner needs is advertisement and<br />
pushful selling, and that is guaranteed by the<br />
cheque on account. Better for him 10 per<br />
cent. and £50 down, than 25 per cent. and<br />
nothing down.<br />
<br />
One of these first three books was the ‘ Time<br />
Machine.” I had previously refused an invita-<br />
tion from Mr. X. to undertake part of the<br />
expense of publication and trust to him. At<br />
times we meet, and I remind him of that<br />
incident. He is quite a well-known publisher.<br />
<br />
It has been a matter of regret to me that<br />
those first three agreements were not limited to<br />
a term of years. No just publisher will<br />
object to such a limitation upon the part of a<br />
beginner,—five or seven years is reasonable ;<br />
and it affords an opportunity for rearrangement<br />
if the beginning develops into success.<br />
<br />
Also let me assure the beginner that it is<br />
particularly ridiculous for him to trust to<br />
agents. If an agent were your agent only, or<br />
agent only for you and a select group of<br />
authors, there might be some sense in giving<br />
over your affairs to him; but every literary<br />
agent seems promiscuously disposed to grab 10<br />
per cent. of any transaction going, and it is so<br />
obviously to every agent’s interest to “ keep<br />
in” with publishers and so unimportant to<br />
them whether they grab their tenths on this<br />
man’s work or that man’s work, that except in<br />
the case of very big and conspicuous and<br />
valuable authors indeed—and every agent<br />
must, of course, be able to claim one or two<br />
<br />
big authors, commercially speak; -<br />
can get his chance on . before he<br />
<br />
minor crowd—<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
I do not see how any real services can<br />
pected from them. It is just because<br />
them now taxing the writing public at large on<br />
the strength of one or two generously<br />
special cases, that I am calling attention to the<br />
<br />
ordinary facts and the plain common sense of §<br />
<br />
the agency business. It is not simply that<br />
<br />
ents need not and do not display any ex. |»<br />
clusive loyalty to their clients ; most of them }<br />
<br />
get the money so easily that they do not even<br />
trouble to draw tolerable agreements, save<br />
American copyright, secure complete serialisa-<br />
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tion, realise minor rights, or do the most i‘<br />
<br />
manifest duties of their position. No t<br />
that I have ever heard of can aa<br />
<br />
most of the British agents know no langu<br />
but English. I can speak of only one<br />
efficient agent in London at the present time,<br />
and he deals in a speciality, the negotiation of<br />
serials. I am told, but I have no sure know-<br />
ledge, that another understands this new and<br />
~ cinematograph business. He limits<br />
is work as every genuine agent should to a<br />
specified list of clients. There may be yet<br />
others meritorious, but unknown to me,<br />
<br />
I quite — with “ Justice ’’ that it would<br />
be easy to draw up a standard agreement that<br />
would cover all the possibilities of most books,<br />
and which would be fair to both author and<br />
publisher. I think, indeed, this Authors’<br />
Society Model Agreement is a little overdue.<br />
1 should be very pleased to assist in its pre-<br />
paration.<br />
<br />
H. G. Weis.<br />
ee<br />
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UNREVIEWED Books.<br />
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Sir,—I saw recently in The Author &<br />
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reviewed. I have written a few scientific<br />
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review, inquire whether it will be reviewed<br />
and within what time. Unless the reply 's<br />
fairly definite I do not send a copy. In the<br />
case of cheap books printed in large numbers<br />
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above, but in that case is it fair to expect 4<br />
paper to review every book received ?<br />
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I am, etc.,<br />
E. S. BELLASIS.<br />
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[Assented to 20th November, 1912.]<br />
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BE rr ENACTED by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of<br />
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows :—<br />
<br />
PART JI.—PRELIMINARY.<br />
<br />
1. This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act 1912.<br />
<br />
2. This Act is divided into Parts as follows :—<br />
Part I.—Preliminary.<br />
Part JI.—Copyright.<br />
Part IJ],—Summary Remedies.<br />
Part [V.—The Copyright Office.<br />
Part V.—WMiscellaneous.<br />
3. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—<br />
(a) “ the British Copyright Act” means the Copyright Act 1911 of the United<br />
Kingdom (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46) ;<br />
(b) words and expressions defined in the British Copyright Act have the same<br />
meanings as in that Act ;<br />
(c) “ Territory ” means a Territory of the Commonwealth which is part thereof.<br />
<br />
4, The Copyright Act 1905 is repealed.<br />
<br />
5. The Copyright Office established under the Copyright Act 1905, and any officers<br />
appointed under that Act, shall continue as if established or appointed under this Act.<br />
<br />
6. Where, in pursuance of any proclamation™ issued under the Copyright Act 1905,<br />
the administration of any State Copyright Act has become transferred to the Common-<br />
wealth, such administration shall continue to be so transferred to the same extent and<br />
subject to the same terms and conditions as if the Copyright Act 1905 still remained<br />
in force.<br />
<br />
7. All Registers of Copyrights established under the Copyright Act 1905 shall<br />
continue as if established under this Act.<br />
<br />
* See proclamation in Gazette of 26th January, 1907, p. 435.<br />
<br />
Short title.<br />
<br />
Parts.<br />
<br />
Definitions.<br />
<br />
Repeal.<br />
<br />
Continuance<br />
of Copyright<br />
Office.<br />
<br />
Continuance<br />
of Adminis-<br />
tration of<br />
State Copy-<br />
right Acts,<br />
<br />
Continuance<br />
of Registers<br />
of Copyrights.<br />
Adoption of<br />
British Copy-<br />
right Act.<br />
<br />
Modifications<br />
to adapt the<br />
British Copy-<br />
right Act to<br />
the Common-<br />
wealth.<br />
<br />
Importation<br />
of copies.<br />
<br />
1 & 2 Geo. 5,<br />
c. 46, s. 14,<br />
<br />
ea :<br />
<br />
PART II.—Copyricut.<br />
<br />
8. The British Copyright Act, a copy of which is set out in the Schedule to this Act,<br />
shall, subject to any modifications provided by this Act, be in force in the Commonwealth,<br />
and shall be deemed to have been in force therein as from the first day of July, One<br />
thousand nine hundred and twelve.<br />
<br />
9. In the application of the British Copyright Act to the Commonwealth—<br />
<br />
(a) any powers of the Board of Trade under section three may be exercised by the<br />
Governor-General ;<br />
<br />
(v) the reference in sub-section (4.) of section nineteen to arbitration shall be<br />
read as a reference to arbitration under the law of the State or Territory in<br />
which the dispute occurs, and the reference in sub-section (6.) of that section<br />
to the Board of Trade shall be read as a reference to the Governor-General ;<br />
<br />
(c) the reference in section twenty-two to the Patents and Designs Act 1907<br />
shall be read as a reference to the Designs Act 1906, and the reference in<br />
that section to section eighty-six of the Patents and Designs Act 1907 shall<br />
be read as a reference to section forty-one of the Designs Act 1906 ; and<br />
<br />
(d) the reference in section twenty-four to the London Gazette and two London<br />
newspapers shall be read as a reference to the Commonwealth Gazette and one<br />
newspaper published in each of the capital cities of the Australian States.<br />
<br />
10.—(1.) Copies made out of the Commonwealth of any work in which copyright<br />
subsists which if made in the Commonwealth would infringe copyright, and as to which<br />
the owner of the copyright gives notice in writing by himself or his agent to the<br />
Comptroller-General of Customs, that he is desirous that such copies should not be<br />
imported into the Commonwealth, shall not be so imported and shall, subject to the<br />
provisions of this section, be deemed to be prohibited imports within the meaning of the<br />
Customs Act 1901-1910.<br />
<br />
(2.) Before detaining any such copies, or taking any further proceedings with a view<br />
to the forfeiture thereof, the Comptroller-General of Customs or the Collector of Customs<br />
for the State may require the regulations under this section, whether as to information, con-<br />
ditions, or other matters, to be complied with, and may satisfy himself in accordance with<br />
those regulations that the copies are such as are prohibited by this section to be imported.<br />
<br />
(3.) The Governor-General may make regulations, either general or special, respecting<br />
the detention and forfeiture of copies, the importation of which is prohibited by this<br />
section, and the conditions, if any, to be fulfilled before such detention and forfeiture, and<br />
may, by such regulations, determine the information, notices, and security to be given,<br />
and the evidence requisite for any of the purposes of this section, and the mode of<br />
verification of such evidence.<br />
<br />
(4.) The regulations may apply to copies of all works, the importation of copies of<br />
which is prohibited by this section, or different regulations may be made respecting<br />
different classes of such works.<br />
<br />
(5.) The regulations may provide for the informant reimbursing the Comptroller-<br />
General of Customs or the Collector of Customs for the State all expenses and damages<br />
incurred in respect of any detention made on his information, and of any proceedings<br />
consequent on such detention ; and may provide for notices under the Copyright Act 1905<br />
being treated as notices given under this section, and also that notices given to the<br />
Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom and communicated by<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
them to the Comptroller-General of Customs shall be deemed to have been given by the<br />
owner to the Comptroller-General.<br />
<br />
(6.) This section shall have effect as the necessary modification of section fourteen of<br />
the British Copyright Act.<br />
<br />
11.—(1.) Subject to this section, the Governor-General in Council may, by Order,<br />
direct that the British Copyright Act and this Act sball extend to literary, musical,<br />
dramatic, and artistic works first produced or published in any part of the King’s<br />
Dominions to which the British Copyright Act does not extend, in like manner as if the<br />
works had been first published or produced in the Commonwealth.<br />
<br />
(2.) Any Order made in pursuance of this section may provide—<br />
<br />
(a) that the term of copyright shall not exceed that conferred by the law of the<br />
part of the King’s dominions to which the Order relates ;<br />
<br />
(b) that the enjoyment of the rights conferred by virtue of the Order shall<br />
extend to the Commonwealth only, and shall be subject to the accomplish-<br />
ment of such conditions and formalities as are prescribed by the Order ;<br />
<br />
(c) for the modification of any provision of the British Copyright Act or this<br />
Act as to ownership of copyright or otherwise, having regard to the law of<br />
the part of the King’s dominions to which the Order relates ; and<br />
<br />
(d) that the British Copyright Act and this Act may extend to existing works<br />
in which copyright subsists in the part of the King’s dominions to which<br />
the Order relates, but subject, to such modifications restrictions and pro-<br />
visions as are set out in the Order.<br />
<br />
(3.) An order in pursuance of this section shall only be made in case the Governor-<br />
General in Council is satisfied that the part of the King’s dominions in relation to which<br />
the Order is proposed to be made has made, or has undertaken to make, such provisions,<br />
if any, as he thinks sufficient for the protection of works first produced or published in<br />
the Commonwealth and entitled to copyright therein.<br />
<br />
12.—(1.) The Governor-General in Council may make Orders for altering, revoking,<br />
or varying any Order in Council made by him in pursuance of any power conferred upon<br />
him by the British Copyright Act or this Act, but any Order made under this section<br />
shall not affect prejudicially any rights or interests acquired or accrued at the date when<br />
the Order comes into operation, and shall provide for the protection of such rights and<br />
interests.<br />
<br />
(2.) Every Order in Council made by the Governor-General in pursuance of any<br />
power conferred upon him by the British Copyright Act or this Act shall be published in<br />
the Gazette, and shall be laid before both Houses of the Parliament as soon as may be<br />
after it is made, and shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.<br />
<br />
13.—(1.) Where copyright subsisted in the United Kingdom in respect of any<br />
musical, dramatic, or artistic work at or after the commencement of the Copyright Act<br />
1905 and before the first day of July One thousand nine hundred and twelve, the copy-<br />
right shall, subject to this section, be deemed to have subsisted in the Commonwealth as<br />
from the commencement of the Copyright Act 1905 or from the date of the commence-<br />
ment of the copyright in the work, as the case requires, to the same extent as if copyright<br />
therein had subsisted in the Commonwealth under the law of the United Kingdom.<br />
<br />
(2.) Where a person has before the commencement of this Act taken any action<br />
whereby he has incurred any expenditure or liability in connexion with the reproduction<br />
<br />
Provision<br />
<br />
for reciprocal<br />
protection of<br />
copyright.<br />
<br />
Cf. Canada<br />
Copyright<br />
Bill 1911,<br />
el. 34,<br />
<br />
Provisions as<br />
to order in<br />
council.<br />
<br />
Cf. 1 & 2 Geo.<br />
5, c. 46, 8. 32.<br />
<br />
Saving of<br />
copyrights in<br />
certain works<br />
made out of<br />
the Common-<br />
wealth,<br />
<br />
<br />
Summary<br />
offences,<br />
<br />
1 & 2 Geo. 5,<br />
c, 46,5. 11.<br />
<br />
Penalty for<br />
permitting<br />
unauthorized<br />
performance<br />
in theatres,<br />
&e.<br />
<br />
Cf. No. 25,<br />
1905, s. 51.<br />
<br />
Search<br />
warrant and<br />
<br />
(4)<br />
<br />
of any musical, dramatic, or artistic work in a manner which at the time was lawful, or<br />
for the purpose of or with a view to the reproduction of any such work at a time when<br />
such reproduction would, but for this Act, have been lawful, nothing in this section shall<br />
diminish or prejudice any rights or interest arising from or in connexion with such<br />
action which were subsisting and valuable at the first day of July, One thousand nine<br />
hundred and twelve, unless the person who, by virtue of this section, becomes entitled to<br />
restrain such reproduction agrees to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be<br />
determined by arbitration.<br />
<br />
PART JIII.—Summary REMEDIES.<br />
<br />
14.—(1.) If any person knowingly—<br />
(a) makes for sale or hire any infringing copy of a work in which copyright<br />
subsists ; or<br />
(2) sells or lets for hire or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire, any<br />
infringing copy of any such work; or<br />
(¢) distributes infringing copies of any such work either for the purposes of trade<br />
or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright ; or<br />
(d) by way of trade exhibits in public any infringing copy of any such work ; or<br />
(6) imports for sale or hire into the Commonwealth any infringing copy of any<br />
such work,<br />
he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and be liable on summary conviction to a<br />
fine not exceeding Forty shillings for every copy dealt with in contravention of this section,<br />
but not exceeding Fifty pounds in respect of the same transaction; or in the case of a<br />
second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment with or without hard<br />
labour for a term not exceeding two months.<br />
<br />
(2.) If any person knowingly makes or has in his possession any plate for the purpose<br />
of making infringing copies of any work in which copyright subsists, or knowingly<br />
and for his private profit causes any such work to be performed in: public without the<br />
consent of the owner of the copyright, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and<br />
be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding Fifty pounds, or, in the case of a<br />
second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment with or without hard<br />
labour for a term not exceeding two months.<br />
<br />
(3.) The court before which any such proceedings are taken may, whether the alleged<br />
offender is convicted or not, order that all copies of the work or all plates in possession of<br />
the alleged offender which appear to it to be infringing copies or plates for the purpose<br />
of making infringing copies, be destroyed or delivered up to the owner of the copyright or<br />
otherwise dealt with as the court may think fit.<br />
<br />
15. Any person’ who, for his private profit, permits any theatre or other place of enter-<br />
tainment to be used for the performance in public of any musical or dramatic work,<br />
without the consent of the registered owner of the sole right to perform or authorize the<br />
performance of the work in the state or part of the Commonwealth where the theatre or<br />
place is situated, shall be guilty of an offence, unless he was not aware, and had no reason-<br />
able ground for suspecting, that the performance would be an infringement of the right<br />
to perform or authorize the performance of the work.<br />
<br />
Penalty : Ten pounds.<br />
<br />
16.—(1.) A Justice of the Peace may, upon the application of the registered owner<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
of the copyright in any literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work or of the agent of such<br />
owner appointed in writing—<br />
<br />
(a) if satisfied by evidence that there is reasonable ground for believing that<br />
infringing copies of the work are being sold, or offered for sale—issue a<br />
warrant, in accordance with the form prescribed, authorizing any constable<br />
to seize the infringing copies and to bring them before a court of summary<br />
jurisdiction ;<br />
<br />
(b) if satisfied by evidence that there is reasonable ground for believing that<br />
infringing copies of the work are to be found in any house, shop, or other<br />
place—issue a warrant, in accordance with the form prescribed, authorizing<br />
any constable to search, between sunrise and sunset, the place where the<br />
infringing copies are supposed to be, and to seize and bring them or any<br />
copies reasonably suspected to be infringing copies of the work before a<br />
court of summary jurisdiction.<br />
<br />
(2.) A court of summary jurisdiction may, on proof that any copies brought before it<br />
in pursuance of this section are infringing copies of the work, order them to be destroyed<br />
or to be delivered up, subject to such conditions, if any, as the court thinks fit, to the<br />
owner of the copyright in the work.<br />
<br />
17.—(1.) The registered owner of the sole right to perform, or authorize the perform-<br />
ance, of a musical or dramatic work in the Commonwealth or any part thereof, or the agent<br />
of such owner appointed in writing, may, by notice in writing in accordance with the<br />
prescribed form, forbid the performance in public of the work in infringement of his<br />
right, and require any person to refrain from performing or taking part in the performance<br />
in public of the work, in infringement of his right, and every person to whom a notice<br />
has been given in accordance with this section shall refrain from performing or taking<br />
part in the performance in public of the work in infringement of the right of such<br />
owner.<br />
<br />
Penalty : Ten pounds.<br />
<br />
(2.) A person shall not give any notice in pursuance of this section without just<br />
cause.<br />
<br />
Penalty : Twenty pounds.<br />
<br />
(3.) In any prosecution under sub-section (2.) of this section, the defendant shall be<br />
deemed to have given the notice without just cause unless he proves to the satisfaction of<br />
the court that, at the time of giving the notice, he was the registered owner of the sole right<br />
to perform, or authorize the performance, of the work in the Commonwealth or any part<br />
thereof, or the agent or (sic) such owner appointed in writing, and had reasonable ground<br />
for believing that the person to whom the notice was given was about to perform or take<br />
part in the performance of the work in infringement of the right of such owner.<br />
<br />
18. Where proceedings are instituted in any court of summary jurisdiction, by or on<br />
behalf of the owner of the copyright in any work or the owner of the sole right to perform,<br />
or authorize the performance, of any work, in respect of any offence in infringement of his<br />
right, any penalty imposed shall be paid to him by way of compensation for the injury<br />
sustained by him, but in any other case any penalty imposed in respect of any offence<br />
against this Act shall be paid to the Commonwealth.<br />
<br />
19. No proceedings shall be instituted in a court of summary jurisdiction in respect<br />
of any offence against this Act after the expiration of six months from the date of the<br />
offence.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
seizure of<br />
pirated copies.<br />
<br />
Cf. No. 25,<br />
1905, s. 52.<br />
<br />
Power of<br />
owner of per-<br />
forming right<br />
to forbid per-<br />
formance in<br />
infringement<br />
of his right.<br />
<br />
No. 25, 1905,<br />
s. 54.<br />
<br />
Application<br />
of penalties,<br />
No. 25, 1905,<br />
s. 57,<br />
<br />
Limitation of<br />
summary pro-<br />
ceedings.<br />
<br />
Cf. No. 25,<br />
1905, s. 59.<br />
<br />
<br />
Appeals,<br />
Tb. s. 60.<br />
<br />
Part not to<br />
apply to<br />
works of<br />
architecture.<br />
Cf. 1&2 Geo.<br />
5,c. 46s, 9(2).<br />
<br />
Copyright<br />
office.<br />
<br />
Cf. No. 25,<br />
1905, s. 10.<br />
Registrar of<br />
Copyrights.<br />
Cf. ib. s. 10.<br />
<br />
Powers and<br />
functions of<br />
Registrar.<br />
<br />
Seal.<br />
Cf. ib. s. 11.<br />
<br />
Registration<br />
optional.<br />
<br />
Copyright<br />
Registers.<br />
<br />
Ib. s. 64.<br />
<br />
Method of<br />
registration,<br />
Cf. No. 25,<br />
1905, s. 65.<br />
<br />
Registration<br />
of assign-<br />
ments and<br />
transmissions,<br />
<br />
Ib. 8. 66.<br />
<br />
How registra-<br />
tion effected.<br />
<br />
Ib. s. 67.<br />
<br />
20. An appeal shall lie from any conviction or order (including any dismissal of any<br />
information, complaint, or application) of a court of summary jurisdiction in respect of<br />
any offence or matter under this Act, and such appeal shall be to the court, and shall be<br />
made within the time and in the manner, provided by the law of the State or Territory in<br />
in which the conviction or order was made in case of appeals from courts of summary<br />
jurisdiction in that State or Territory.<br />
<br />
21. This Part of this Act shall not apply to any case to which section nine of the<br />
British Copyright Act, relating to infringement of copyright in the case of a work of<br />
architecture applies.<br />
<br />
PART IV.—Tue Copyricur OFrice.<br />
Division 1.—GENERAL.<br />
<br />
22. There shall be, for the purposes of this Act, an office called the Copyright Office.<br />
<br />
23. The Copyright Office shall be in charge of an officer called the Registrar of<br />
Copyrights.<br />
<br />
24. The Registrar of Copyrights shall have such powers and functions as are conferred<br />
upon him by this Act and the regulations.<br />
<br />
25.—(1.) There shall be a seal of the Copyright Office, and impressions thereof shall<br />
be judicially noticed.<br />
<br />
(2.) The seal of the Copyright Office in use at the commencement of this Act shall,<br />
until altered, be the seal of the Copyright Office.<br />
<br />
DIVISION 2.—REGISTRATION.<br />
<br />
26. Registration of copyright shall be optional, but the special remedies provided for<br />
by sections fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen of this Act can only be taken advantage of by<br />
registered owners.<br />
<br />
27. The following Registers of Copyrights shall be kept by the Registrar at the<br />
Copyright Office :-—<br />
The Register of Literary (including Dramatic and Musical) Copyrights.<br />
The Register of Fine Arts Copyrights.<br />
The Register of International and State Copyrights.<br />
<br />
28. The owner of any copyright under this Act, or of the sole right to perform, or:<br />
authorize the performance, of any musical or dramatic work in the Commonwealth or any<br />
part thereof, may obtain registration of his right in the manner prescribed.<br />
<br />
29. When any person becomes entitled to any registered copyright or other right.<br />
under this Act by virtue of any assignment or transmission, or to any interest therein by<br />
licence, he may obtain registration of the assignment, transmission, or licence in the<br />
manner prescribed.<br />
<br />
30. The registration of any copyright or other right under this Act, or of any assign-<br />
ment or transmission thereof or of any interest therein by licence, shall be effected by<br />
entering in the proper register the prescribed particulars relating to the right, assignment,.<br />
transmission, or licence.<br />
<br />
<br />
31. In the case of an encyclopedia, newspaper, review, magazine, or other periodical<br />
work, or a work published in a series of books or parts, a single registration for the whole<br />
work may be made.<br />
<br />
32.—(1.) No notice of any trust expressed, implied, or constructive shall be entered<br />
in any Register of Copyrights under this Act or be receivable Ly the Registrar.<br />
<br />
(2.) Subject to this section, equities in respect of any copyright under this Act may<br />
be enforced in the same manner as equities in respect of other personal property.<br />
<br />
33. Every Register of Copyrights under this Act shall be primd facie evidence of the<br />
particulars entered therein, and documents purporting to be copies of any entry therein or<br />
extracts therefrom certified by the Registrar and sealed with the seal of the Copyright<br />
Office, shall be admissible in evidence in all Federal or State courts, or the courts of any<br />
Territory, without further proof or production of the originals.<br />
<br />
34. Certified copies of entries in any register under this Act or of extracts therefrom<br />
shall on payment of the prescribed fee be given to any person applying for them.<br />
<br />
35. Each register under this Act shall be open to public inspection at all convenient<br />
times on payment of the prescribed fee.<br />
<br />
36. The Registrar may, in prescribed cases and subject to the prescribed conditions,<br />
amend or alter any register under this Act by—<br />
(a) correcting any error in any name, address, or particular ; and<br />
(b) entering any prescribed memorandum or particular relating to copyright or<br />
other right under this Act.<br />
<br />
37.—(1.) Subject to this Act the Supreme Court of any State or a Judge thereof<br />
may, on the application of the Registrar or of any person aggrieved, order the rectification<br />
of any register under this Act by—<br />
<br />
(a) the making of any entry wrongly omitted to be made in the register ; or<br />
(b) the expunging of any entry wrongly made in or remaining on the register ; or<br />
(c) the correction of any error or defect in the register.<br />
<br />
(2.) An appeal shall lie to the High Court from any order for. the rectification of any<br />
<br />
register made by a Supreme Court or a Judge under this section.<br />
<br />
38.—(1.) Every person who makes application for the registration of the copyright<br />
in a book shall deliver to the Registrar one copy of the whole book with all maps and<br />
illustrations belonging thereto, finished and coloured in the same manner as the best<br />
copies of the book are published, and bound, sewed, or stitched together and on the best<br />
paper on which the book is printed.<br />
<br />
(2.) Every person who makes application for the registration of the copyright in a<br />
work of art shall deliver to the Registrar one copy of the work of art or a representation<br />
of it.<br />
<br />
(3.) The Registrar shall refuse to register the copyright in any book until<br />
sub-section (1.) of this section has been complied with, or the copyright in a work of art<br />
until sub-section (2.) of this section has been complied with.<br />
<br />
(4.) Each copy or representation delivered to the Registrar in pursuance of this<br />
section shall be retained at the Copyright Office.<br />
<br />
39. A person who wilfully makes any false statement or representation to deceive the<br />
Registrar or any officer in the execution of this Part of this Act, or to procure or<br />
<br />
Registration<br />
of works<br />
published in<br />
a series.<br />
<br />
Trusts not<br />
registered.<br />
<br />
No. 25, 1905,<br />
s. 68.<br />
<br />
Register to be<br />
evidence.<br />
<br />
Tb. s. 69.<br />
<br />
Certified<br />
copies.<br />
<br />
Ib. s. 70.<br />
Inspection of<br />
registey’.<br />
<br />
Tb. 8. 71.<br />
<br />
Correction of<br />
register.<br />
Ib. s. 72.<br />
<br />
Rectification<br />
of register by<br />
the Court.<br />
No, 25, 1905,<br />
s. 73.<br />
<br />
Delivery of<br />
copies to<br />
Registrar.<br />
Ib. 8. 75.<br />
<br />
False repre-<br />
sentation to<br />
Registrar.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
No. 25, 1905,<br />
s. 76.<br />
<br />
Delivery of<br />
books to the<br />
Librarian of<br />
the Parlia-<br />
ment,<br />
<br />
Cf. 1 & 2 Geo,<br />
5, c. 46, s, 15.<br />
<br />
Preservation<br />
of rights of<br />
State libraries,<br />
<br />
Regulations.<br />
<br />
No. 25, 1905,<br />
s. 79.<br />
<br />
(4)<br />
<br />
influence the doing or omission of any thing in relation to this Part of this Act or any<br />
matter thereunder shall be guilty of an indictable offence.<br />
P nalty ; Imprisonment for three years.<br />
<br />
PART V.—MIScELLANEOUS.<br />
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40.—(1.) The publisher of every book which is first published in the Commonwealth<br />
after the commencement of this section, and in which copyright subsists under this Act,<br />
shall within one month .after the publication deliver, at his own expense, a copy of the<br />
book to the Librarian of the Parliament, who shall give a written receipt for it.<br />
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(2.) The copy delivered to the Librarian of the Parliament shall be a copy of the<br />
whole book with all maps and illustrations belonging thereto, finished and coloured in the<br />
same manner as the best copies of the book are published, and bound, sewed, or stitched<br />
together, and on the best paper on which the book is printed.<br />
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(3.) Ifa publisher fails to comply with this section, he shall be liable on summary<br />
conviction to a fine not exceeding Five pounds and the value of the book.<br />
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(4.) For the purposes of this section the expression ‘“‘ book ” includes every part or<br />
division of a hook, pamphlet, sheet of letterpress, map, plan, chart, or table, but shall not<br />
include any second or subsequent edition of a book unless that edition contains additions<br />
or alterations either in the letterpress or in the maps, prints, or other engravings<br />
belonging thereto or any book published by any State or any authority of a State.<br />
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41, Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect the existing provisions of any Act<br />
of the Parliament of a State which require or relate to the delivery to any specified Public<br />
or other Library of the State of copies of books published in the State or to affect the<br />
power of the Parliament of a State to make laws requiring or relating to such delivery.<br />
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42. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act,<br />
prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or<br />
which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to this Act or for the<br />
conduct of any business relating to the Copyright Office.<br />
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